Igor Y. Tamm's Birth Card: The 7 of Diamonds

In the record

Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (Russian: И́горь Евге́ньевич Тамм; 8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Cherenkov and Ilya Frank, for their 1934 discovery and demonstration of Cherenkov radiation. The birth-card coordinate for July 8 is the 7 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1958 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1958 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect

The 7 of Diamonds coordinate

Igor Y. Tamm's birthday maps to the 7 of Diamonds (The Skeptical Investor). 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 Igor Y. Tamm. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You look at worth without reducing it to the account balance.

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Igor Y. Tamm in the public record

He also predicted the quasi-particle of sound: the phonon; and in 1951, together with Andrei Sakharov, proposed the Tokamak system. Igor Tamm was born in 1895 in Vladivostok into the family of Eugene Tamm, a civil engineer, and his wife Olga Davydova. According to Russian sources, Tamm had German noble descent on his father's side through his grandfather Theodor Tamm, who emigrated from Thuringia. Although his surname "Tamm" is rather common in Estonia, other sources state he was Jewish or had Jewish ancestry. He studied at a gymnasium in Elisavetgrad (now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine). In 1913–1914 he studied at the University of Edinburgh together with his school-friend Boris Hessen. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914 he joined the army as a volunteer field medic. In 1917 he joined the Revolutionary movement and became an active anti-war campaigner, serving on revolutionary committees after the March Revolution.

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

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Integrating compassion with hard-won wisdom

Igor Tamm was born in 1895 in Vladivostok into the family of Eugene Tamm, a civil engineer, and his wife Olga Davydova.

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Also on the record

1. He returned to the Moscow State University from which he graduated in 1918.
2. Tamm married Nataliya Shuyskaya (1894–1980) in September 1917.
3. Shе belonged to a noble Rurikid Shuysky family.
4. They eventually had two children, Irina (1921–2009, chemist) and Evgeny (1926–2008, experimental physicist and famous mountain climber, leader of the Soviet Everest expedition in 1982).

Other laureates with this card

• Alan MacDiarmid — 2000 Chemistry
• Christian de Duve — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
• Clive W.J. Granger — 2003 Economic Sciences
• Cordell Hull — 1945 Peace
• David M. Lee — 1996 Physics
• David W.C. MacMillan — 2021 Chemistry
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — 1964 Chemistry
• Frederick Reines — 1995 Physics
• Johannes V. Jensen — 1944 Literature
• Lord Todd — 1957 Chemistry
• Maria Ressa — 2021 Peace
• Max Delbrück — 1969 Physiology or Medicine
• 11 more laureates share this card.

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The 7 of Diamonds. July 8 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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