Robert C. Richardson's Birth Card: The 4 of Clubs

In the record

Robert Coleman Richardson (June 26, 1937 – February 19, 2013) was an American experimental physicist whose area of research included sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3. The birth-card coordinate for June 26 is the 4 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1996 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1996 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3

The 4 of Clubs coordinate

Robert C. Richardson's birthday maps to the 4 of Clubs (The Systematic 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 Robert C. Richardson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You put knowledge into an order other people can actually use.

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Robert C. Richardson in the public record

Richardson, along with David Lee, as senior researchers, and then graduate student Douglas Osheroff, shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1972 discovery of the property of superfluidity in helium-3 atoms in the Cornell University Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics. Richardson was born in Washington D.C. He went to high school at Washington-Lee in Arlington, Virginia. He later described Washington-Lee's biology and physics courses as "very old-fashioned" for the time. "The idea of 'advanced placement' had not yet been invented," he wrote in his Nobel Prize autobiography. He took his first calculus course when he was a sophomore in college. Richardson attended Virginia Tech and received a B.S. in 1958 and a M.S. in 1960. He received his PhD from Duke University in 1966.

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

Where the record meets the 4 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 C. Richardson, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Systematic thinking and organizational ability

Robert Coleman Richardson (June 26, 1937 – February 19, 2013) was an American experimental physicist whose area of research included sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: research.

Other laureates with this card

• Craig C. Mello — 2006 Physiology or Medicine
• Edward Tatum — 1958 Physiology or Medicine
• Ernesto Teodoro Moneta — 1907 Peace
• Henri Bergson — 1927 Literature
• Henrik Pontoppidan — 1917 Literature
• José Saramago — 1998 Literature
• Nicolay G. Basov — 1964 Physics
• Patrick White — 1973 Literature
• Pearl Buck — 1938 Literature
• Simon Kuznets — 1971 Economic Sciences
• Stanley B. Prusiner — 1997 Physiology or Medicine
• Theodore W. Schultz — 1979 Economic Sciences

FAQ

What is Robert C. Richardson's birth card?

The 4 of Clubs. June 26 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 C. Richardson's dates come from?

Birth date 1937-06-26 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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