Georges Charpak's Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds

In the record

Hersz Georges Charpak (French: [ʒɔʁʒ ʃaʁpak]; 1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 for his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber. The birth-card coordinate for August 1 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1992 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1992 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber

The Queen of Diamonds coordinate

Georges Charpak's birthday maps to the Queen of Diamonds (The Prosperous Nurturer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Georges Charpak. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety.

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Georges Charpak in the public record

Georges Charpak was born on 1 August 1924 to Jewish parents, Chana (Szapiro) and Maurice Charpak, in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland (now Dubrovytsia in Ukraine). Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old, beginning his study of mathematics in 1941 at the Lycée Saint-Louis. The actor and film director André Charpak was his younger brother. During World War II Charpak served in the resistance and was imprisoned by Vichy authorities in 1943. In 1944 he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, where he remained until the camp was liberated in 1945. After classes préparatoires studies at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and later at Lycée Joffre in Montpellier, he joined in 1945 the Paris-based École des Mines, one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France. The following year he became a naturalized French citizen. He graduated in 1948, earning the French degree of Civil Engineer of Mines (Ingénieur Civil des Mines equivalent to a Master's degree) becoming a pupil in the laboratory of Frédéric Joliot-Curie at the Collège de France during 1949, the year after Curie had directed construction of the first atomic pile within France.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Georges Charpak (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 3 of Clubs

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Hersz Georges Charpak (French: [ʒɔʁʒ ʃaʁpak]; 1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 for his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: physics. This line comes from the Venus position of the Q♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. While at the Collège, Charpak secured a research position for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
2. He received his PhD in 1954 in nuclear physics at the Collège de France, receiving the qualification after having written a thesis on the subject of very-low-energy radiation due to disintegration of nuclei (Charpak & Suzor).
3. He remained politically engaged: in 1972, together with Daniele Amati, he launched a petition against the Vietnam War.
4. Several years later, he initiated the Juri Orlow Committee to protest the imprisonment of the human rights activist in the former Soviet Union.

Other laureates with this card

• Allvar Gullstrand — 1911 Physiology or Medicine
• Artturi Virtanen — 1945 Chemistry
• Dennis Gabor — 1971 Physics
• Douglas D. Osheroff — 1996 Physics
• George de Hevesy — 1943 Chemistry
• Harald zur Hausen — 2008 Physiology or Medicine
• Martin Chalfie — 2008 Chemistry
• Martin Luther King Jr. — 1964 Peace
• Nathan Söderblom — 1930 Peace
• Nicolaas Bloembergen — 1981 Physics
• Rabindranath Tagore — 1913 Literature
• Sidney Altman — 1989 Chemistry
• 2 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Georges Charpak's birth card?

The Queen of Diamonds. August 1 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

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Where do Georges Charpak's dates come from?

Birth date 1924-08-01 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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