Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Dutch: [ˈɦɛikə ˈkaːmərlɪŋ ˈɔnəs]; 21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch experimental physicist who became the first to liquefy helium, cooling it to near 1.5 kelvin (K). The birth-card coordinate for September 21 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1913 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1913 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium

The 3 of Clubs coordinate

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's birthday maps to the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). 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 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move an idea across more than one channel without abandoning the one that needs depth.

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in the public record

For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1913. In 1911, using liquid helium to investigate the electrical conductivity of solid mercury, Kamerlingh Onnes found that its electrical resistance vanishes at 4.2 K, i.e. superconductivity. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was born on 21 September 1853 in Groningen, Netherlands, the son of Harm Kamerlingh Onnes, a brickworks owner, and Anna Gerdina Coers of Arnhem. In 1870, Kamerlingh Onnes attended the University of Groningen, where he earned his B.Sc. the following year. From 1871 to 1873, he studied under Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff at the University of Heidelberg. He then returned to Groningen, obtaining an M.Sc. in 1878. The following year, he received his Ph.D. with a thesis on Earth's rotation. In 1878, Kamerlingh Onnes became an assistant to Johannes Bosscha, the Director of the Delft Polytechnic, for whom he substituted as a lecturer in 1881 and 1882.

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Where the record meets the 5 of Diamonds

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Kamerlingh Onnes received widespread recognition for this work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium." For further research on low-temperature, Kamerlingh Onnes needed large amounts of helium.

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Also on the record

1. In 1882, he was appointed Professor of Experimental Physics and Meteorology at Leiden University.
2. In 1904, he founded a large cryogenics laboratory, and invited other researchers to the location, which made him highly regarded in the scientific community.
3. The laboratory is now known as the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory.
4. Kamerlingh Onnes died on 21 February 1926 in Leiden at the age of 72.

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• Eugene Wigner — 1963 Physics
• Frances H. Arnold — 2018 Chemistry
• Hamilton O. Smith — 1978 Physiology or Medicine
• Hans Spemann — 1935 Physiology or Medicine
• Henri Becquerel — 1903 Physics
• Jean Dausset — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
• John B. Goodenough — 2019 Chemistry
• 14 more laureates share this card.

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