Bruce Merrifield's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

In the record

Robert Bruce Merrifield (July 15, 1921 – May 14, 2006) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. The birth-card coordinate for July 15 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1984 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1984 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix

The King of Clubs coordinate

Bruce Merrifield's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). 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 Bruce Merrifield. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Bruce Merrifield in the public record

He was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on 15 July 1921, the only son of George E. Merrifield and Lorene née Lucas. In 1923 the family moved to California where he attended nine grade schools and two high schools before graduating from Montebello High School in 1939. It was there that he developed an interest both in chemistry and in astronomy. After two years at Pasadena Junior College he transferred to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). After graduation in chemistry he worked for a year at the Philip R. Park Research Foundation taking care of an animal colony and assisting with growth experiments on synthetic amino acid diets. One of these was the experiment by Geiger using the law of the minimum that first demonstrated that the essential amino acids must be present simultaneously for growth to occur.

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

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Robert Bruce Merrifield (July 15, 1921 – May 14, 2006) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis.

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

Also on the record

1. He returned to graduate school at the UCLA chemistry department with professor of biochemistry M.S.
2. Dunn to develop microbiological methods for the quantitation of the pyrimidines.
3. The day after graduating on 19 June 1949, he married Elizabeth Furlong and the next day left for New York City and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
4. At the institute, later Rockefeller University, he worked as an Assistant for Dr.

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FAQ

What is Bruce Merrifield's birth card?

The King of Clubs. July 15 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?

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Where do Bruce Merrifield's dates come from?

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