J. Michael Kosterlitz's Birth Card: The 8 of Clubs

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John Michael Kosterlitz (born June 22, 1943) is a British-American physicist. The birth-card coordinate for June 22 is the 8 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2016 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2016 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter

The 8 of Clubs coordinate

J. Michael Kosterlitz's birthday maps to the 8 of Clubs (The Ambitious Builder). 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 J. Michael Kosterlitz. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run a knowledge system other people can follow, and you stand behind the call.

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J. Michael Kosterlitz in the public record

He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, to German-Jewish émigrés, the son of the pioneering biochemist Hans Walter Kosterlitz and Hannah Gresshöner. He was educated independently at Robert Gordon's College before transferring to the Edinburgh Academy to prepare for his university entrance examinations. He received his BA degree, subsequently converted to an MA degree, at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1969, he earned a DPhil degree from the University of Oxford as a postgraduate student of Brasenose College, Oxford. After a few postdoctoral positions, including positions at the University of Birmingham, collaborating with David Thouless, and at Cornell University, he was appointed to the faculty of the University of Birmingham in 1974, first as a lecturer and, later, as a reader. Since 1982, he has been professor of physics at Brown University.

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He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz.

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Also on the record

1. Kosterlitz was a visiting research fellow at Aalto University in Finland and since 2016 a distinguished professor at Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
2. Kosterlitz does research in condensed matter theory, one- and two-dimensional physics; in phase transitions: random systems, electron localization, and spin glasses; and in critical dynamics: melting and freezing.
3. Michael Kosterlitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016, “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”; the Maxwell Medal and Prize from the British Institute of Physics in 1981, and the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society in 2000, especially, for his work on the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition.
4. Since 1992, he has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Other laureates with this card

• Ada E. Yonath — 2009 Chemistry
• Albert Szent-Györgyi — 1937 Physiology or Medicine
• Albrecht Kossel — 1910 Physiology or Medicine
• Aristide Briand — 1926 Peace
• Arno Penzias — 1978 Physics
• Bob Dylan — 2016 Literature
• Corneille Heymans — 1938 Physiology or Medicine
• Erik Axel Karlfeldt — 1931 Literature
• Frans Eemil Sillanpää — 1939 Literature
• Gerd Binnig — 1986 Physics
• Gérard Mourou — 2018 Physics
• Howard M. Temin — 1975 Physiology or Medicine
• 15 more laureates share this card.

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What is J. Michael Kosterlitz's birth card?

The 8 of Clubs. June 22 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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