August Krogh's Birth Card: The 5 of Clubs

In the record

Schack August Steenberg Krogh (15 November 1874 – 13 September 1949) was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. The birth-card coordinate for November 15 is the 5 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1920 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1920 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism

The 5 of Clubs coordinate

August Krogh's birthday maps to the 5 of Clubs (The Dynamic Innovator). 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 August Krogh. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pressure-test an idea in public and let the better one win.

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August Krogh in the public record

He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing Krogh's principle. In 1920 August Krogh was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle. Krogh was first to describe the adaptation of blood perfusion in muscle and other organs according to demands through opening and closing the arterioles and capillaries. Besides his contributions to medicine, Krogh was also one of the founders of what is today the Novo Nordisk company. He was born in Grenaa on the peninsula of Djursland in Denmark, the son of Viggo Krogh, a shipbuilder. His mother (born Drechmann) was the daughter of a customs officer in Holstein. Through his mother’s family he claimed "a dash of gipsy blood in his veins". Krogh was educated at the Aarhus Katedralskole in Aarhus.

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

Where the record meets the 5 of Clubs

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Quick thinking and fast adaptation

Schack August Steenberg Krogh (15 November 1874 – 13 September 1949) was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945.

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

Also on the record

1. He attended the University of Copenhagen graduating MSc in 1899 and gaining a doctorate PhD in 1903.
2. Krogh was a pioneer in comparative physiology.
3. He wrote his thesis on the respiration through the skin and lungs in frogs: Respiratory Exchange of Animals, 1915.
4. Later Krogh took on studies of water and electrolyte homeostasis of aquatic animals and he published the books: Osmotic Regulation (1939) and Comparative Physiology of Respiratory Mechanisms (1941).

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What is August Krogh's birth card?

The 5 of Clubs. November 15 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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