Raymond Davis Jr.'s Birth Card: The 8 of Clubs

In the record

Raymond Davis Jr. (October 14, 1914 – May 31, 2006) was an American chemist and physicist. The birth-card coordinate for October 14 is the 8 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2002 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2002 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos

The 8 of Clubs coordinate

Raymond Davis Jr.'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 Raymond Davis Jr.. 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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Raymond Davis Jr. in the public record

He is best known as the leader of the Homestake experiment in the 1960s-1980s, which was the first experiment to detect neutrinos emitted from the Sun; for this he shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics. Davis was born in Washington, D.C., where his father was a photographer for the National Bureau of Standards. He spent several years as a choirboy to please his mother, although he could not carry a tune. He enjoyed attending the concerts at the Watergate before air traffic was loud enough to drown out the music. His brother Warren, 14 months younger than he, was his constant companion in boyhood. He received his B.S. from the University of Maryland in 1938 in chemistry, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. He also received a master's degree from that school and a Ph.D. from Yale University in physical chemistry in 1942. After entering the Army as a reserve officer in 1942, Davis spent most of World War II at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah observing the results of chemical weapons tests and exploring the Great Salt Lake basin for evidence of its predecessor, Lake Bonneville.

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

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He is best known as the leader of the Homestake experiment in the 1960s-1980s, which was the first experiment to detect neutrinos emitted from the Sun; for this he shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Also on the record

1. After his discharge from the Army in 1945, Davis went to work at Monsanto's Mound Laboratory, in Miamisburg, Ohio, doing applied radiochemistry of interest to the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
2. In 1948, he joined Brookhaven National Laboratory, which was attempting to find peaceful uses for nuclear power.
3. Davis reports that he was asked "to find something interesting to work on," and dedicated his career to the study of neutrinos, particles which had been predicted to explain the process of beta decay, but whose separate existence had not been confirmed.
4. Davis investigated the detection of neutrinos by beta decay, the process by which a neutrino brings enough energy to a nucleus to make certain stable isotopes into radioactive ones.

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 Raymond Davis Jr.'s birth card?

The 8 of Clubs. October 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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