Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Yuan T. Lee's Birth Card: The Ace of Clubs
The Creative Pioneer
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
Yuan Tseh Lee (Chinese: 李遠哲; pinyin: Lǐ Yuǎnzhé; Wade–Giles: Li³ Yüan³-che²; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Oán-tiat; born 19 November 1936) is a Taiwanese physical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 for his contributions to the development of reaction dynamics. The birth-card coordinate for November 19 is the Ace of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1986 Chemistry prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 1986 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes
1986 — The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
“for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes”
Shared with Dudley R. Herschbach (Q♣), John C. Polanyi (4♦). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/3.
190 other Chemistry laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The Ace of Clubs coordinate
Yuan T. Lee's birthday maps to the Ace of Clubs (The Creative Pioneer). 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 Yuan T. Lee. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a new idea while it is still usable, and you let it meet the world unfinished.
Yuan T. Lee in the public record
Lee is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and honorary director of the Nagoya University Institute for Advanced Study along with Ryoji Noyori. He was awarded the Nobel with John C. Polanyi and Dudley R. Herschbach for "contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". He was the first Taiwanese person be awarded the Nobel Prize. His research in physical chemistry concerned the use of advanced chemical kinetics techniques to investigate and manipulate the behavior of chemical reactions using crossed molecular beams. From 1994 to 2006, Lee served as the President of the Academia Sinica. In 2011, he was elected head of the International Council for Science.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Yuan T. Lee (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Ace 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 Yuan T. Lee, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Yuan T. Lee's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 5♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Dynamic Innovator
- 5♠ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Restless Mind
- 4♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Systematic Builder
- 5♥ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Restless Heart
- 9♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Humanitarian Builder
- 9♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Idealistic Mind
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.
Original thinking and idea generation
Yuan Tseh Lee (Chinese: 李遠哲; pinyin: Lǐ Yuǎnzhé; Wade–Giles: Li³ Yüan³-che²; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Oán-tiat; born 19 November 1936) is a Taiwanese physical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 for his contributions to the development of reaction dynamics.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: chemistry.
Other laureates with this card
- Andre Geim — 2010 Physics
- Charles M. Rice — 2020 Physiology or Medicine
- Christopher A. Sims — 2011 Economic Sciences
- Clifford G. Shull — 1994 Physics
- Demis Hassabis — 2024 Chemistry
- Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. — 1971 Physiology or Medicine
- Frederick C. Robbins — 1954 Physiology or Medicine
- George E. Palade — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
- Giosuè Carducci — 1906 Literature
- Hans Fischer — 1930 Chemistry
- Hans Krebs — 1953 Physiology or Medicine
- Herbert Kroemer — 2000 Physics
- 14 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Yuan T. Lee's birth card?
- The Ace of Clubs. November 19 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 Yuan T. Lee's dates come from?
- Birth date 1936-11-19 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 265) + Wikidata CC0 (Q243190) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Yuan T. Lee). Birth date 1936-11-19 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).