Hans G. Dehmelt's Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds

In the record

Hans Georg Dehmelt (9 September 1922 – 7 March 2017) was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique (Penning trap) with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize (the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey). The birth-card coordinate for September 9 is the 2 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1989 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1989 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the development of the ion trap technique

The 2 of Diamonds coordinate

Hans G. Dehmelt's birthday maps to the 2 of Diamonds (The Financial Partner). 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 Hans G. Dehmelt. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides.

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Hans G. Dehmelt in the public record

Their technique was used for high precision measurement of the electron magnetic moment. At the age of ten Dehmelt enrolled in the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, a Latin school in Berlin, where he was admitted on a scholarship. After graduating in 1940, he volunteered for service in the German Army, which ordered him to attend the University of Breslau to study physics in 1943. After a year of study he returned to army service and was captured during the Battle of the Bulge. After his release from an American prisoner of war camp in 1946, Dehmelt returned to his study of physics at the University of Göttingen, where he supported himself by repairing and bartering old, pre-war radio sets. He completed his master's thesis in 1948 and received his PhD in 1950, both from the University of Göttingen. He was then invited to Duke University as a postdoctoral associate, emigrating in 1952. Dehmelt became an assistant professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington in 1955, an associate professor in 1958, and a full professor in 1961.

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

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Natural teaching and mentoring ability

Hans Georg Dehmelt (9 September 1922 – 7 March 2017) was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique (Penning trap) with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize (the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey).

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Also on the record

1. In 1955 he built his first electron impact tube in George Volkoff's laboratory at the University of British Columbia and experimented on paramagnetic resonances in polarized atoms and free electrons.
2. In the 1960s, Dehmelt and his students worked on spectroscopy of hydrogen and helium ions.
3. The electron was finally isolated in 1973 with David Wineland, who continued work on trapped ions at NIST.
4. He created the first geonium atom in 1976, which he then used to measure precise magnetic moments of the electron and positron with R.

Other laureates with this card

• Aaron Klug — 1982 Chemistry
• Alain Aspect — 2022 Physics
• Allan M. Cormack — 1979 Physiology or Medicine
• Arvid Carlsson — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• Christiaan Eijkman — 1929 Physiology or Medicine
• D. Carleton Gajdusek — 1976 Physiology or Medicine
• Desmond Tutu — 1984 Peace
• Didier Queloz — 2019 Physics
• Douglass C. North — 1993 Economic Sciences
• Ferenc Krausz — 2023 Physics
• Glenn T. Seaborg — 1951 Chemistry
• Herbert Simon — 1978 Economic Sciences
• 16 more laureates share this card.

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