Adolf Butenandt's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

In the record

Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (24 March 1903, Lehe near Bremerhaven – 18 January 1995, Munich) was a German biochemist. The birth-card coordinate for March 24 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1939 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1939 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his work on sex hormones

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

Adolf Butenandt's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 Adolf Butenandt. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

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Adolf Butenandt in the public record

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He initially rejected the award in accordance with government policy, but accepted it in 1949 after World War II. He was President of the Max Planck Society from 1960 to 1972. He was also the first, in 1959, to discover the structure of the sex pheromone of silkworms, which he named bombykol. Born in Lehe, near Bremerhaven, he started his studies at Marburg University. For his PhD, he joined the working group of the Nobel laureate Adolf Windaus at the University of Göttingen and he finished his studies with a PhD in chemistry in 1927. His doctoral research was on the chemistry of the insecticidal toxin found in the roots of Derris elliptica which he isolated and characterized. After his Habilitation he became lecturer in Göttingen 1931. He became a professor ordinarius at the Technical University of Danzig from 1933 until 1936.

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

Where the record meets the Queen of Clubs

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Deep wisdom and thoughtful guidance

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He initially rejected the award in accordance with government policy, but accepted it in 1949 after World War II.

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

Also on the record

1. In 1933, Butenandt signed the Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State.
2. In 1936, he applied for the directorship of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut (later the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry) in Berlin-Dahlem while also joining the NSDAP on 1 May 1936 (party member No.
3. 3716562).
4. The earlier director of the Kaiser Wilhelm institute was Carl Neuberg, who had been removed for being a Jew.

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FAQ

What is Adolf Butenandt's birth card?

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

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