Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Il´ja M. Frank's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts
The Devoted Nurturer
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian: Илья Михайлович Франк; 23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Cherenkov and Igor Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. The birth-card coordinate for October 23 is the Queen of Hearts — 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
1958 — The Nobel Prize in Physics
“for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect”
Shared with Igor Y. Tamm (7♦), Pavel A. Cherenkov (K♥). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/3.
222 other Physics laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The Queen of Hearts coordinate
Il´ja M. Frank's birthday maps to the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted 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 Il´ja M. Frank. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next.
Il´ja M. Frank in the public record
He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation. He received the Stalin prize in 1946 and 1953 and the USSR state prize in 1971. Ilya Frank was born on 23 October 1908 in St. Petersburg. His father, Mikhail Lyudvigovich Frank, was a talented mathematician descended from a Jewish family, while his mother, Yelizaveta Mikhailovna Gratsianova, was a Russian Orthodox physician. His father participated in the student revolutionary movement, and as a result was expelled from Moscow University. After the October Revolution, he was reinstated and appointed professor. Ilya's uncle, Semyon Frank, a philosopher, was expelled from Soviet Russia in 1922 together with 160 other intellectuals.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ilya Frank (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs
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Cards in Il´ja M. Frank's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♥ — Birth Card: The Devoted Nurturer
- 9♣ — Karma — Environment: The Humanitarian Builder
- 10♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Completed Mind
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 8♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Businessman
- K♠ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Master of Thought
- 7♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Analytical Creator
- Q♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Wise Guide
- A♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Truth Pioneer
- 7♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Reflective Heart
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian: Илья Михайлович Франк; 23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Cherenkov and Igor Tamm, also of the Soviet Union.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: physics.
Also on the record
- Ilya had one elder brother, Gleb Mikhailovich Frank, who became an eminent biophysicist and member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
- Ilya Frank studied mathematics and theoretical physics at Moscow State University.
- From his second year he worked in the laboratory of Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, whom he regarded as his mentor.
- After graduating in 1930, on recommendation of Vavilov, he started working at the State Optical Institute in Leningrad.
Other laureates with this card
- Albert A. Michelson — 1907 Physics
- Ales Bialiatski — 2022 Peace
- Carl Bosch — 1931 Chemistry
- Charles G. Dawes — 1925 Peace
- Dag Hammarskjöld — 1961 Peace
- Daniel L. McFadden — 2000 Economic Sciences
- Eric Cornell — 2001 Physics
- Eyvind Johnson — 1974 Literature
- Felix Bloch — 1952 Physics
- George D. Snell — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
- Isidor Isaac Rabi — 1944 Physics
- Norman F. Ramsey — 1989 Physics
- 3 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Il´ja M. Frank's birth card?
- The Queen of Hearts. October 23 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?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do Il´ja M. Frank's dates come from?
- Birth date 1908-10-23 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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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 721) + Wikidata CC0 (Q192703) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Ilya Frank). Birth date 1908-10-23 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).