Joseph H. Taylor Jr.'s Birth Card: The 7 of Clubs

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Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist. The birth-card coordinate for March 29 is the 7 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1993 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1993 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation

The 7 of Clubs coordinate

Joseph H. Taylor Jr.'s birthday maps to the 7 of Clubs (The Analytical Creator). 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 Joseph H. Taylor Jr.. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take a claim apart until the usable piece is left, then you use it.

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Joseph H. Taylor Jr. in the public record

He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics with Russell Alan Hulse "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". This was the first indirect detection of gravitational waves, later directly detected by Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss. Taylor was born in Philadelphia to Joseph Hooton Taylor Sr. and Sylvia Evans Taylor, both of whom had Quaker roots for many generations, and grew up in Cinnaminson Township, New Jersey. He attended the Moorestown Friends School in Moorestown Township, New Jersey, where he excelled in math. He received a B.A. in physics at Haverford College in 1963, and a Ph.D. in astronomy at Harvard University in 1968. After a brief research position at Harvard, Taylor went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, eventually becoming Professor of Astronomy and Associate Director of the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory. Taylor's thesis work was on lunar occultation measurements. About the time he completed his Ph.D., Jocelyn Bell (who is also a Quaker) discovered the first radio pulsars with a telescope near Cambridge, England.

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He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics with Russell Alan Hulse "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation".

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Also on the record

1. Taylor immediately went to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's telescopes in Green Bank, West Virginia, and participated in the discovery of the first pulsars discovered outside Cambridge.
2. Since then, he has worked on all aspects of pulsar astrophysics.
3. In 1974, Hulse and Taylor discovered the first pulsar in a binary system, named PSR B1913+16 after its position in the sky, during a survey for pulsars at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
4. Although it was not understood at the time, this was also the first of what are now called recycled pulsars: Neutron stars that have been spun-up to fast spin rates by the transfer of mass onto their surfaces from a companion star.

Other laureates with this card

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — 1970 Literature
• Andrew Z. Fire — 2006 Physiology or Medicine
• Christian Lange — 1921 Peace
• David Trimble — 1998 Peace
• Edvard I. Moser — 2014 Physiology or Medicine
• Edward A. Doisy — 1943 Physiology or Medicine
• Emmanuelle Charpentier — 2020 Chemistry
• Ernest Hemingway — 1954 Literature
• Jack Steinberger — 1988 Physics
• James E. Meade — 1977 Economic Sciences
• John R. Mott — 1946 Peace
• John R. Vane — 1982 Physiology or Medicine
• 12 more laureates share this card.

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What is Joseph H. Taylor Jr.'s birth card?

The 7 of Clubs. March 29 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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