Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
William B. Shockley's Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds
The Prosperous Nurturer
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
William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist. The birth-card coordinate for February 13 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1956 Physics prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 1956 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect
1956 — The Nobel Prize in Physics
“for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect”
Shared with John Bardeen (9♣), Walter H. Brattain (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 Queen of Diamonds coordinate
William B. Shockley's birthday maps to the Queen of Diamonds (The Prosperous Nurturer). 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 William B. Shockley. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety.
William B. Shockley in the public record
He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect." Partly as a result of Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s, California's Silicon Valley became a hotbed of electronics innovation. He recruited brilliant employees, but quickly alienated them with his autocratic and erratic management; they left and founded major companies in the industry. In his later life, while he was a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University and afterward, Shockley became known for his outspoken promotion of racism and eugenics.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article William Shockley (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Queen of Diamonds
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Cards in William B. Shockley's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♦ — Birth Card: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 9♦ — Karma — Environment: The Universal Provider
- 3♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Success Communicator
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 5♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- 3♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Creative Communicator
- 7♠ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Questioning Mind
- 2♣ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Collaborative Builder
- K♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Master Leader
- J♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Successful Messenger
- 4♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 4♦ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Financial Foundation Builder
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.
Natural ability to provide and nurture materially
He recruited brilliant employees, but quickly alienated them with his autocratic and erratic management; they left and founded major companies in the industry.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: founded.
Other laureates with this card
- Allvar Gullstrand — 1911 Physiology or Medicine
- Artturi Virtanen — 1945 Chemistry
- Dennis Gabor — 1971 Physics
- Douglas D. Osheroff — 1996 Physics
- George de Hevesy — 1943 Chemistry
- Georges Charpak — 1992 Physics
- Harald zur Hausen — 2008 Physiology or Medicine
- Martin Chalfie — 2008 Chemistry
- Martin Luther King Jr. — 1964 Peace
- Nathan Söderblom — 1930 Peace
- Nicolaas Bloembergen — 1981 Physics
- Rabindranath Tagore — 1913 Literature
- 2 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is William B. Shockley's birth card?
- The Queen of Diamonds. February 13 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 William B. Shockley's dates come from?
- Birth date 1910-02-13 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 65) + Wikidata CC0 (Q163415) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (William Shockley). Birth date 1910-02-13 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).