Lawrence Bragg's Birth Card: The 5 of Clubs

In the record

Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his father William Henry Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays", an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography. The birth-card coordinate for March 31 is the 5 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1915 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1915 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays

The 5 of Clubs coordinate

Lawrence Bragg's birthday maps to the 5 of Clubs (The Dynamic Innovator). 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 Lawrence Bragg. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pressure-test an idea in public and let the better one win.

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Lawrence Bragg in the public record

As of 2025, Bragg is the youngest ever Nobel laureate in physics, or in any science category, having received the award at the age of 25. Bragg was the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, when James D. Watson and Francis Crick reported the discovery of the structure of DNA in February 1953. William Lawrence Bragg was born on 31 March 1890 in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of William Henry Bragg (1862–1942), who was appointed Elder Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Adelaide in 1885, and Gwendoline Todd (1869–1929), daughter of Charles Todd, government astronomer of South Australia. In 1900, Bragg enrolled at Queen's School, North Adelaide, followed by five years at St Peter's College, Adelaide. He went to the University of Adelaide at the age of 16 to study mathematics, chemistry, and physics, graduating in 1908. The same year, his father accepted the Cavendish Chair of Physics at the University of Leeds and brought the family to England. Bragg enrolled at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate student of Trinity College, Cambridge, in the autumn of 1909, receiving a major scholarship in mathematics, despite taking the exam while in bed with pneumonia.

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

Where the record meets the 5 of Clubs

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William Lawrence Bragg was born on 31 March 1890 in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of William Henry Bragg (1862–1942), who was appointed Elder Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Adelaide in 1885, and Gwendoline Todd (1869–1929), daughter of Charles Todd, government astronomer of South Australia.

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

Also on the record

1. After initially excelling in mathematics, he transferred to the physics course in the later years of his studies, and graduated in 1912 with First Class Honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos.
2. In 1914, Bragg became a Fellow and Lecturer in Natural Sciences at Trinity College.
3. Among Bragg's other interests was shell collecting; his personal collection amounted to specimens from some 500 species; all personally collected from South Australia.
4. He discovered a new species of cuttlefish – Sepia braggi, named for him by Joseph Verco.

Other laureates with this card

• Al Gore — 2007 Peace
• Alexei Abrikosov — 2003 Physics
• August Krogh — 1920 Physiology or Medicine
• Ben Bernanke — 2022 Economic Sciences
• Carlo Rubbia — 1984 Physics
• Donna Strickland — 2018 Physics
• Gerhart Hauptmann — 1912 Literature
• Harold C. Urey — 1934 Chemistry
• Henry Kissinger — 1973 Peace
• J. Hans D. Jensen — 1963 Physics
• John Cockcroft — 1951 Physics
• John L. Hall — 2005 Physics
• 12 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Lawrence Bragg's birth card?

The 5 of Clubs. March 31 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 Lawrence Bragg's dates come from?

Birth date 1890-03-31 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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