Samuel C.C. Ting's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

In the record

Chao Chung Ting (Chinese: 丁肇中; pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng, born January 27, 1936), also known by his English name Samuel, is a Taiwanese-American particle physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 with Burton Richter for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. The birth-card coordinate for January 27 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1976 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1976 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind

The King of Clubs coordinate

Samuel C.C. Ting's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). 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 Samuel C.C. Ting. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Samuel C.C. Ting in the public record

He is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Institute Chair at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ting was born on January 27, 1936, at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to first generation immigrant parents from Ju County, Shandong, China. His parents, Kuan-hai Ting and Tsun-ying Wong, met and married as graduate students at the University of Michigan. When Ting was born, his parents had just earned their master's degrees from the University of Michigan and his father, a civil engineer, had received a professorship to teach at the China University of Mining and Technology. Ting's parents returned to China two months after his birth. Throughout the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ting was homeschooled by his parents. After the Chinese Civil War, Ting moved to Taiwan with his family in 1949 during the Great Retreat. He would live there as a Taiwanese waishengren from 1949 to 1956 and conducted most of his formal schooling there.

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

Where the record meets the King 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 Samuel C.C. Ting, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Clear thinking and decisive action

Chao Chung Ting (Chinese: 丁肇中; pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng, born January 27, 1936), also known by his English name Samuel, is a Taiwanese-American particle physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 with Burton Richter for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle.

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

Also on the record

1. His mother taught psychology as a professor at National Taiwan University (NTU).
2. Ting attended and finished middle school in Taiwan.
3. After graduating from Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School, he attained a perfect score on the college entrance examinations and entered National Cheng Kung University in September 1955 to study mechanical engineering.
4. As an undergraduate, he completed one semester at the university with high grades in mathematics and science.

Other laureates with this card

• A. Michael Spence — 2001 Economic Sciences
• Albert Camus — 1957 Literature
• Barry C. Barish — 2017 Physics
• Bertram N. Brockhouse — 1994 Physics
• Bruce Merrifield — 1984 Chemistry
• Carl Cori — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
• Daniel Bovet — 1957 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
• Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• François Jacob — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick Sanger — 1958 Chemistry; 1980 Chemistry
• 28 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Samuel C.C. Ting's birth card?

The King of Clubs. January 27 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 Samuel C.C. Ting's dates come from?

Birth date 1936-01-27 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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