Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Robert B. Laughlin's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds
The Generous Provider
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
Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is an American physicist. The birth-card coordinate for November 1 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1998 Physics prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 1998 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations
1998 — The Nobel Prize in Physics
“for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations”
Shared with Daniel C. Tsui (10♣), Horst L. Störmer (2♠). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/3.
222 other Physics laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The 6 of Diamonds coordinate
Robert B. Laughlin's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). 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 Robert B. Laughlin. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.
Robert B. Laughlin in the public record
He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton University, he was awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect. In 1983, Laughlin was first to provide a many body wave function, now known as the Laughlin wavefunction, for the fractional quantum Hall effect, which was able to correctly explain the fractionalized charge observed in experiments. This state has since been interpreted as the integer quantum Hall effect of the composite fermion. His 2017 paper, "Pumped thermal grid storage with heat exchange" inspired Project Malta at Google X and subsequently Malta inc.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Robert B. Laughlin (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs
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 Robert B. Laughlin, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Robert B. Laughlin's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 6♦ — Birth Card: The Generous Provider
- 3♠ — Karma — Environment: The Sorrowful Truth
- 9♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Humanitarian Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- A♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 10♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Wealthy Master
- 5♥ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Restless Heart
- Q♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Wise Guide
- Q♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Nurturing Leader
- 9♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Compassionate Idealist
- 7♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Analytical 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.
Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective
Bass Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: physics, professor.
Other laureates with this card
- Ben R. Mottelson — 1975 Physics
- Carl von Ossietzky — 1935 Peace
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas — 1936 Peace
- Carol W. Greider — 2009 Physiology or Medicine
- Charles J. Pedersen — 1987 Chemistry
- David J. Gross — 2004 Physics
- Elinor Ostrom — 2009 Economic Sciences
- J. Robin Warren — 2005 Physiology or Medicine
- James M. Buchanan Jr. — 1986 Economic Sciences
- James P. Allison — 2018 Physiology or Medicine
- Jennifer A. Doudna — 2020 Chemistry
- Johannes Stark — 1919 Physics
- 15 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Robert B. Laughlin's birth card?
- The 6 of Diamonds. November 1 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 Robert B. Laughlin's dates come from?
- Birth date 1950-11-01 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 155) + Wikidata CC0 (Q189997) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Robert B. Laughlin). Birth date 1950-11-01 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).