Adolf Windaus's Birth Card: The 6 of Hearts

In the record

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (25 December 1876 – 9 June 1959) was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. The birth-card coordinate for December 25 is the 6 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1928 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1928 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins

The 6 of Hearts coordinate

Adolf Windaus's birthday maps to the 6 of Hearts (The Devoted Caregiver). 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 Windaus. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You care for people without disappearing. Help comes from a full plate, not an empty one.

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Adolf Windaus in the public record

He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939. He was born in Berlin, Germany, on 25 December 1876 to a family who owned a drapery business. He attended a prestigious French grammar school, where he focused primarily on literature. Windaus began studying medicine at the University of Berlin in about 1895 then proceeded to study chemistry at the University of Freiburg. He married Elizabeth Resau in 1915, and they had three children together, Günter, Gustav, and Margarete. After earning his PhD in medicine, Windaus became the head of the chemical institute at the University of Göttingen from 1915 to 1944. Throughout his life, Windaus won many awards, including the Goethe Medal, the Pasteur Medal, and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. In addition to his many accomplishments and discoveries in science, Windaus was also one of the very few German chemists who did not work with the Nazis and openly opposed their regime.

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

Where the record meets the 6 of Hearts

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 Adolf Windaus, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Integrating genuine care with healthy boundaries

He was born in Berlin, Germany, on 25 December 1876 to a family who owned a drapery business.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: family.

Also on the record

1. As the head of the chemical institute at the University of Göttingen, Windaus personally defended one of his Jewish graduate students from dismissal.
2. Windaus believed that while every man had a moral code, his science was motivated by curiosity, and was not driven by politics, ethics, and applications of his discoveries.
3. This viewpoint caused Windaus to decline to research poison gas during World War I.
4. He was involved in the discovery of the transformation of cholesterol through several steps to vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol).

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• Ernst Ruska — 1986 Physics
• Gerhard Herzberg — 1971 Chemistry
• Han Kang — 2024 Literature
• Lars Onsager — 1968 Chemistry
• Sir Charles Sherrington — 1932 Physiology or Medicine

FAQ

What is Adolf Windaus's birth card?

The 6 of Hearts. December 25 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 Adolf Windaus's dates come from?

Birth date 1876-12-25 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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