Victor F. Hess's Birth Card: The 6 of Clubs

In the record

Victor Franz Hess (German: [ˈvɪktɔʁ ˈfʁants ˈhɛs]; 24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson for his discovery of cosmic rays. The birth-card coordinate for June 24 is the 6 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1936 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1936 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for his discovery of cosmic radiation

The 6 of Clubs coordinate

Victor F. Hess's birthday maps to the 6 of Clubs (The Nurturing Creator). 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 Victor F. Hess. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson.

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Victor F. Hess in the public record

Victor Franz Hess was born on 24 June 1883 at Waldstein Castle in Deutschfeistritz, Styria, the son of Vinzens Hess and Serafine Edle von Grossbauer-Waldstätt. His father was a royal forester in Prince Louis of Oettingen-Wallerstein's service. Hess attended Graz-Gymnasium from 1893 to 1901. He then studied at the University of Graz from 1901 to 1905, and received his Ph.D. in 1906 from the University of Vienna, where he stayed to do postdoctoral research until 1910. In 1910, Hess became an assistant to Stefan Meyer at the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna. In 1920, he was appointed Extraordinary Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Graz. In 1921, he took a leave of absence to become Director of the Research Laboratory at the United States Radium Corporation in New Jersey, as well as Consulting Physicist for the United States Bureau of Mines in Washington, D.C. In 1923, he returned to Graz, where he was appointed Ordinary Professor of Experimental Physics in 1925.

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

Where the record meets the 6 of Clubs

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Victor Franz Hess (German: [ˈvɪktɔʁ ˈfʁants ˈhɛs]; 24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson for his discovery of cosmic rays.

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

Also on the record

1. In 1931, he was appointed Director of the Institute of Radiology at the University of Innsbruck.
2. In 1937, Hess returned to the University of Graz to become Director of the Institute of Physics.
3. The following year, Austria was annexed by Germany, and Hess was dismissed from his post.
4. He then moved to the United States, and was appointed Professor of Physics at Fordham University in New York City, where he remained until his retirement in 1958.

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• Frederick G. Banting — 1923 Physiology or Medicine
• Gustav Hertz — 1925 Physics
• Günter Grass — 1999 Literature
• Hideki Shirakawa — 2000 Chemistry
• Joshua D. Angrist — 2021 Economic Sciences
• K. Barry Sharpless — 2001 Chemistry; 2022 Chemistry
• Martin L. Perl — 1995 Physics
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• 5 more laureates share this card.

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What is Victor F. Hess's birth card?

The 6 of Clubs. June 24 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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