Jack Kilby's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

In the record

Jack St. The birth-card coordinate for November 8 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2000 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2000 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

Jack Kilby's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 Jack Kilby. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

Live Queen of Clubs meaning page

Jack Kilby in the public record

Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. For this invention, Kilby shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. Kilby was also a co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer, for which he had the patents. He also had patents for seven other inventions. Jack St. Clair Kilby was born on November 8, 1923, in Jefferson City, Missouri. He was raised in Great Bend, Kansas, where his father ran a small electric company that served customers in rural western Kansas. While in high school, a huge ice storm knocked down most of the poles that carried the telephone and electric power lines.

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

Where the record meets the Queen of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Jack Kilby, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Deep wisdom and thoughtful guidance

For this invention, Kilby shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: physics.

Also on the record

1. His father's company had to use amateur radio operators for communication in the areas where customers had lost their power and phone service.
2. This event sparked his interest in electronics.
3. After serving in the U.S.
4. Army as an electronics technician during World War II, Kilby began studying electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, graduating with a B.S. in 1947.

Other laureates with this card

• Adolf Butenandt — 1939 Chemistry
• Ahmed Zewail — 1999 Chemistry
• Akira Suzuki — 2010 Chemistry
• Alphonse Laveran — 1907 Physiology or Medicine
• Anton Zeilinger — 2022 Physics
• Carolyn Bertozzi — 2022 Chemistry
• Claude Simon — 1985 Literature
• Dario Fo — 1997 Literature
• Donald J. Cram — 1987 Chemistry
• Dudley R. Herschbach — 1986 Chemistry
• Eduard Buchner — 1907 Chemistry
• Edward B. Lewis — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• 32 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Jack Kilby's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. November 8 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 Jack Kilby's dates come from?

Birth date 1923-11-08 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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