Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Arieh Warshel'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
Arieh Warshel (Hebrew: אריה ורשל; born November 20, 1940) is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. The birth-card coordinate for November 20 is the King of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2013 Chemistry prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 2013 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems
2013 — The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
“for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”
Shared with Martin Karplus (8♦), Michael Levitt (10♦). 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 King of Hearts coordinate
Arieh Warshel'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 Arieh Warshel. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it.
Arieh Warshel in the public record
He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and holds the Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry at the University of Southern California. He received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems". Warshel was born to a Jewish family in 1940 in kibbutz Sde Nahum, Mandatory Palestine. Warshel served in the Israeli Armored Corps. After serving the Israeli Army (final rank Captain), Warshel attended the Technion, Haifa, where he received his BSc degree in chemistry, summa cum laude, in 1966. Subsequently, he earned both MSc and PhD degrees in Chemical Physics (in 1967 and 1969, respectively), with Shneior Lifson at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. After his PhD, he did postdoctoral work at Harvard University until 1972, and from 1972 to 1976 he returned to the Weizmann Institute and worked for the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England. After being denied tenure by Weizmann Institute in 1976, he joined the faculty of the department of chemistry at USC.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Arieh Warshel (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 2 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 Arieh Warshel, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Arieh Warshel'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
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 4♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Systematic Builder
- 4♠ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Rigid Truth
- 6♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Devoted Caregiver
- 5♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Dynamic Innovator
- 10♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Wealthy Master
- 8♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Powerful Mind
- A♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Emotional Pioneer
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.
Natural partnership and team-building ability
He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and holds the Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry at the University of Southern California.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: chemistry, professor.
Also on the record
- He was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- As a soldier, he fought in both the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War, attaining the rank of captain in the IDF.
- As part of Shenzhen's 13th Five-Year Plan funding research in emerging technologies and opening "Nobel laureate research labs", in April 2017 he opened the Warshel Institute for Computational Biology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen campus.
- In 2025, Warshel was elected to both the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI) and the Serbian National Academy of Science (SASA), recognizing his continued contributions to scientific innovation and discovery.
Other laureates with this card
- Alvin E. Roth — 2012 Economic Sciences
- André F. Cournand — 1956 Physiology or Medicine
- 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 Arieh Warshel's birth card?
- The King of Hearts. November 20 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 Arieh Warshel's dates come from?
- Birth date 1940-11-20 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 891) + Wikidata CC0 (Q4790366) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Arieh Warshel). Birth date 1940-11-20 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).