Syukuro Manabe's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

In the record

Syukuro "Suki" Manabe (真鍋 淑郎, Manabe Shukurō; born 21 September 1931) is a Japanese–American physicist, meteorologist, and climatologist, who pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations. The birth-card coordinate for September 21 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2021 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2021 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming

The 3 of Clubs coordinate

Syukuro Manabe's birthday maps to the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). 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 Syukuro Manabe. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move an idea across more than one channel without abandoning the one that needs depth.

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Syukuro Manabe in the public record

He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi, for his contributions to the physical modeling of Earth's climate, quantifying its variability, and predictions of climate change. Born in 1931 in Shinritsu Village, Uma District, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Both his grandfather and his father were physicians, who operated the only clinic in the village. A classmate recalled that, even in elementary school, he was already "interested in the weather, making comments such as 'If Japan didn't have typhoons, we wouldn't have so much rain.'" Manabe attended Ehime Prefectural Mishima High School. When he was accepted into the University of Tokyo, his family expected him to study medicine, but "whenever there's an emergency, the blood rushes to my head, so I would not have made a good doctor." Furthermore, "I had a horrible memory and I was clumsy with my hands. I thought that my only good trait was to gaze at the sky and get lost in my thoughts." He joined the research team of Shigekata Shono (1911–1969), and majored in meteorology. Manabe received a BA degree in 1953, an MA degree in 1955, and a DSc degree in 1958, all from the University of Tokyo. After finishing his doctorate, Manabe went to the United States to work at the General Circulation Research Section of the U.S.

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

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From 1997 to 2001, he worked at the Frontier Research System for Global Change in Japan serving as Director of the Global Warming Research Division.

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Also on the record

1. Weather Bureau, now the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of NOAA, continuing until 1997.
2. From 1997 to 2001, he worked at the Frontier Research System for Global Change in Japan serving as Director of the Global Warming Research Division.
3. In 2002 he returned to the United States as a visiting research collaborator at the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Princeton University.
4. He currently serves as senior meteorologist at the university.

Other laureates with this card

• Angus Deaton — 2015 Economic Sciences
• Charles Nicolle — 1928 Physiology or Medicine
• David J. Thouless — 2016 Physics
• Donald A. Glaser — 1960 Physics
• Elias Canetti — 1981 Literature
• Eugene Wigner — 1963 Physics
• Frances H. Arnold — 2018 Chemistry
• Hamilton O. Smith — 1978 Physiology or Medicine
• Hans Spemann — 1935 Physiology or Medicine
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — 1913 Physics
• Henri Becquerel — 1903 Physics
• Jean Dausset — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
• 14 more laureates share this card.

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What is Syukuro Manabe's birth card?

The 3 of Clubs. September 21 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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