Zhores Alferov's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds

In the record

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (15 March 1930 – 1 March 2019) was a Russian applied physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. The birth-card coordinate for March 15 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2000 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2000 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics

The 8 of Diamonds coordinate

Zhores Alferov's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). 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 Zhores Alferov. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.

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Zhores Alferov in the public record

In 2000, Alferov shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the semiconductor heterojunction for optoelectronics. He also became a politician in his later life, serving in the State Duma as a member of the Communist Party from 1999. Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was born on 15 March 1930 in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR (now Belarus), the son of Ivan Karpovich Alferov and Anna Vladimirovna. In 1952, Alferov graduated from the Department of Electronics at V. I. Ulyanov Electrotechnical Institute (now Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University). The following year, he joined the staff of the Ioffe Institute, becoming its director in 1987. He obtained his Candidate of Sciences in Technology in 1961, and his Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics in 1970, both from the Ioffe Institute.

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

Where the record meets the 7 of Clubs

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Penetrating analysis and pattern recognition

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (15 March 1930 – 1 March 2019) was a Russian applied physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics.

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

Also on the record

1. Alferov was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1972, and a full member in 1979.
2. In 1973, he was appointed to the Chair of Optoelectronics at the Electrotechnical Institute, and became Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Technology at the Kalinin Politechnical Institute (now Peter the Great St.
3. Petersburg Polytechnic University) in 1988.
4. From 1989, he was Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences and President of its Saint Petersburg Scientific Center.

Other laureates with this card

• Aaron Ciechanover — 2004 Chemistry
• Antony Hewish — 1974 Physics
• Bertha von Suttner — 1905 Peace
• Camillo Golgi — 1906 Physiology or Medicine
• Camilo José Cela — 1989 Literature
• Carl D. Anderson — 1936 Physics
• Daron Acemoglu — 2024 Economic Sciences
• E. Donnall Thomas — 1990 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil von Behring — 1901 Physiology or Medicine
• Fritz Pregl — 1923 Chemistry
• Guido W. Imbens — 2021 Economic Sciences
• Jimmy Carter — 2002 Peace
• 13 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Zhores Alferov's birth card?

The 8 of Diamonds. March 15 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 Zhores Alferov's dates come from?

Birth date 1930-03-15 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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