John Bardeen's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

In the record

John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist. The birth-card coordinate for May 23 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1956 Physics; 1972 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1956 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect
• 1972 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

John Bardeen's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian 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 John Bardeen. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

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John Bardeen in the public record

He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for their invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for their microscopic theory of superconductivity, known as the BCS theory. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Bardeen earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, before receiving a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. After serving in World War II, he was a researcher at Bell Labs and a professor at the University of Illinois. The transistor revolutionized the electronics industry, making possible the development of almost every modern electronic device, from telephones to computers, and ushering in the Information Age. Bardeen's developments in superconductivity, for which he was awarded his second Nobel Prize, are used in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and superconducting quantum circuits. Bardeen is the first of only three people to have won multiple Nobel Prizes in the same category (the others being Frederick Sanger and Karl Barry Sharpless in chemistry), and one of five persons with two Nobel Prizes. In 1990, Bardeen appeared on Life magazine's list of "100 Most Influential Americans of the Century."

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

Where the record meets the 6 of Diamonds

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 John Bardeen, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

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Bardeen is the first of only three people to have won multiple Nobel Prizes in the same category (the others being Frederick Sanger and Karl Barry Sharpless in chemistry), and one of five persons with two Nobel Prizes.

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Other laureates with this card

• Alfred Fried — 1911 Peace
• Alva Myrdal — 1982 Peace
• Eisaku Satō — 1974 Peace
• Fritz Haber — 1918 Chemistry
• Guglielmo Marconi — 1909 Physics
• Henry W. Kendall — 1990 Physics
• Herta Müller — 2009 Literature
• Irving Langmuir — 1932 Chemistry
• James Peebles — 2019 Physics
• James Rainwater — 1975 Physics
• Jean-Paul Sartre — 1964 Literature
• John E. Sulston — 2002 Physiology or Medicine
• 18 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is John Bardeen's birth card?

The 9 of Clubs. May 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 John Bardeen's dates come from?

Birth date 1908-05-23 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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