Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Bernard L. Feringa's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds
The Wealth Pioneer
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
Bernard Lucas "Ben" Feringa (born 18 May 1951) is a Dutch synthetic organic chemist who specializes in molecular nanotechnology and homogeneous catalysis. The birth-card coordinate for May 18 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2016 Chemistry prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 2016 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the design and synthesis of molecular machines
2016 — The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
“for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”
Shared with Jean-Pierre Sauvage (A♣), Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (8♣). 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 Ace of Diamonds coordinate
Bernard L. Feringa's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth Pioneer). 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 Bernard L. Feringa. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.
Bernard L. Feringa in the public record
He is the Jacobus van 't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen; and an Academy professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Feringa's research on molecular machines was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Sauvage. Feringa was born as the son of farmer Geert Feringa (1918–1993) and his wife Lies Feringa née Hake (1924–2013). Feringa was the second of ten siblings in a Catholic family. He spent his youth on the family's farm, which is directly on the border with Germany, in Barger-Compascuum in the Bourtange moor. He is of Dutch and German descent. Among his ancestors is the settler Johann Gerhard Bekel.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ben Feringa (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 5 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 Bernard L. Feringa, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Bernard L. Feringa's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- A♦ — Birth Card: The Wealth Pioneer
- A♥ — Karma — Environment: The Emotional Pioneer
- 2♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Financial Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♣ — 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.
Quick thinking and fast adaptation
He is the Jacobus van 't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen; and an Academy professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: chemistry, professor.
Also on the record
- Together with his wife Betty Feringa, he has three daughters.
- He lives in Paterswolde near Groningen.
- Feringa received his MSc degree with distinction from the University of Groningen in 1974.
- He subsequently obtained a PhD degree at the same university in 1978, with the thesis titled "Asymmetric oxidation of phenols.
Other laureates with this card
- Alfred D. Hershey — 1969 Physiology or Medicine
- Andrea Ghez — 2020 Physics
- Arthur H. Compton — 1927 Physics
- Barbara McClintock — 1983 Physiology or Medicine
- Bertrand Russell — 1950 Literature
- Brian P. Schmidt — 2011 Physics
- Burton Richter — 1976 Physics
- César Milstein — 1984 Physiology or Medicine
- David J. Wineland — 2012 Physics
- Ei-ichi Negishi — 2010 Chemistry
- Erwin Schrödinger — 1933 Physics
- François Englert — 2013 Physics
- 18 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Bernard L. Feringa's birth card?
- The Ace of Diamonds. May 18 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 Bernard L. Feringa's dates come from?
- Birth date 1951-05-18 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 933) + Wikidata CC0 (Q3259614) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Ben Feringa). Birth date 1951-05-18 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).