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Omar M. Yaghi's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades
The Sorrowful Truth
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Omar Mwannes Yaghi (Arabic: عمر مُؤنس ياغي; born February 9, 1965) is a chemist best known for developing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and pioneering reticular chemistry. The birth-card coordinate for February 9 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2025 Chemistry prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 2025 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the development of metal–organic frameworks
2025 — The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
“for the development of metal–organic frameworks”
Shared with Richard Robson (K♦), Susumu Kitagawa (J♦). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/3.
190 other Chemistry laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The 3 of Spades coordinate
Omar M. Yaghi's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful Truth). 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 Omar M. Yaghi. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.
Omar M. Yaghi in the public record
He was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Richard Robson and Susumu Kitagawa, for this work. From 2012 to 2026, Yaghi was a University Professor and James and Neeltje Tretter Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. In July 2026, he left the university to lead a newly-established artificial intelligence and material science research institute at Tsinghua University. Analysts and media outlets characterized the move as a significant indicator of shifting geopolitical dynamics in scientific research, driven by factors such as changing federal funding structures in the United States and expanded institutional recruitment initiatives by China. Yaghi is also an affiliate scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In January 2025, he became the seventh president of the World Cultural Council, an international organization promoting cultural and scientific advancement.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Omar M. Yaghi (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 5 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 Omar M. Yaghi, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Omar M. Yaghi's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 3♠ — Birth Card: The Sorrowful Truth
- J♦ — Karma — Environment: The Successful Messenger
- 6♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Generous Provider
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- J♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- K♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 9♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Universal Provider
- 5♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 4♥ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 4♦ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 2♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Skeptical Partner
- 8♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Emotional Powerhouse
- 6♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Nurturing Creator
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.
Analysts and media outlets characterized the move as a significant indicator of shifting geopolitical dynamics in scientific research, driven by factors such as changing federal funding structures in the United States and expanded institutional recruitment initiatives by China.
Paired on shared wording: changing, move.
Other laureates with this card
- Albert Fert — 2007 Physics
- Alfred Kastler — 1966 Physics
- Benjamin List — 2021 Chemistry
- David Baltimore — 1975 Physiology or Medicine
- George Paget Thomson — 1937 Physics
- Ivar Giaever — 1973 Physics
- J. M. Coetzee — 2003 Literature
- Jacques Monod — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
- Jeffrey C. Hall — 2017 Physiology or Medicine
- Joseph E. Stiglitz — 2001 Economic Sciences
- Julius Wagner-Jauregg — 1927 Physiology or Medicine
- Kailash Satyarthi — 2014 Peace
- 6 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Omar M. Yaghi's birth card?
- The 3 of Spades. February 9 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 Omar M. Yaghi's dates come from?
- Birth date 1965-02-09 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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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 1055) + Wikidata CC0 (Q743252) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Omar M. Yaghi). Birth date 1965-02-09 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).