Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
André F. Cournand's Birth Card: The King of Hearts
The Compassionate King
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
André Frédéric Cournand (September 24, 1895 – February 19, 1988) was a French-American physician and physiologist. The birth-card coordinate for September 24 is the King of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1956 Physiology or Medicine prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 1956 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system
1956 — The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
“for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system”
Shared with Dickinson W. Richards (5♥), Werner Forssmann (10♥). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/3.
226 other Physiology or Medicine laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The King of Hearts coordinate
André F. Cournand's birthday maps to the King of Hearts (The Compassionate King). 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 André F. Cournand. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it.
André F. Cournand in the public record
Cournand was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 along with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization. Born in Paris, Cournand emigrated to the United States in 1930 and, in 1941, became a naturalized citizen. For most of his career, Cournand was a professor at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and worked at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Many seats of medical research have recognized his work, and he has received the Anders Retzius Silver Medal of the Swedish Society for Internal Medicine (1946), the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1949), the John Philipps Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians (1952), the Gold Medal of the Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique and of the Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris (1956). He was elected Doctor (honoris causa) of the Universities of Strasbourg (1957), Lyon (1958), Brussels (1959), Pisa (1961), and D.Sc. of the University of Birmingham (1961). In 1981, Cournand became a founding member of the World Cultural Council. His widow Beatrice died in 1993 aged 90.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article André Frédéric Cournand (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 of Spades
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 André F. Cournand, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in André F. Cournand's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♥ — Birth Card: The Compassionate King
- 9♠ — Karma — Environment: The Idealistic Mind
- 2♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Collaborative Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- J♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
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.
Visionary thinking and universal perspective
André Frédéric Cournand (September 24, 1895 – February 19, 1988) was a French-American physician and physiologist.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: physician.
Also on the record
- Kenéz, J (Nov 1975).
- "A.F.
- Cournand, pioneer in respiratory function testing".
- Orvosi Hetilap.
Other laureates with this card
- Alvin E. Roth — 2012 Economic Sciences
- Arieh Warshel — 2013 Chemistry
- Baruch S. Blumberg — 1976 Physiology or Medicine
- Charles H. Townes — 1964 Physics
- Charles Richet — 1913 Physiology or Medicine
- Clinton Davisson — 1937 Physics
- Czesław Miłosz — 1980 Literature
- Doris Lessing — 2007 Literature
- George Beadle — 1958 Physiology or Medicine
- Harold E. Varmus — 1989 Physiology or Medicine
- Ivan Bunin — 1933 Literature
- J.J. Thomson — 1906 Physics
- 10 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is André F. Cournand's birth card?
- The King of Hearts. September 24 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 André F. Cournand's dates come from?
- Birth date 1895-09-24 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).
Get the $9 Deep Dive
The Deep Dive is a written card report for your own birthday — not a Nobel reading.
Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 360) + Wikidata CC0 (Q271757) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (André Frédéric Cournand). Birth date 1895-09-24 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).