Jerome I. Friedman's Birth Card: The 8 of Clubs

In the record

Jerome Isaac Friedman (born March 28, 1930) is an American physicist. The birth-card coordinate for March 28 is the 8 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1990 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1990 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics

The 8 of Clubs coordinate

Jerome I. Friedman'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 Jerome I. Friedman. 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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Jerome I. Friedman in the public record

He is institute professor and professor of physics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Henry Kendall and Richard Taylor, "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics.", work which showed an internal structure for protons later known to be quarks. Friedman sits on the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Born in Chicago, Illinois to Lillian (née Warsaw) and Selig Friedman, a sewing machine salesman, Friedman's Jewish parents emigrated to the U.S. from Russia. Jerome Friedman excelled in art but became interested in physics after reading a book on relativity written by Albert Einstein. He turned down a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago in order to study physics at the University of Chicago. Whilst there he worked under Enrico Fermi, and eventually received his Ph.D. in physics in 1956. In 1960, he joined the physics faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

Where the record meets the 8 of Clubs

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Strategic thinking and long-term planning

He is institute professor and professor of physics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

Also on the record

1. In 1968–69, commuting between MIT and California, he conducted experiments with Henry W.
2. Kendall and Richard E.
3. Taylor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center which gave the first experimental evidence that protons had an internal structure, later known to be quarks.
4. For this, Friedman, Kendall and Taylor shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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 Jerome I. Friedman's birth card?

The 8 of Clubs. March 28 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?

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