Carl Cori's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

In the record

Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS (December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984) was an Austrian-American biochemist and pharmacologist. The birth-card coordinate for December 5 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1947 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1947 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen

The King of Clubs coordinate

Carl Cori'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 Carl Cori. 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.

Live King of Clubs meaning page

Carl Cori in the public record

He, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how the glucose derivative glycogen (animal starch) is broken down and resynthesized in the body for use as a store and source of energy. In 2004, both Coris were designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark in recognition of their work that elucidated carbohydrate metabolism. Carl Ferdinand Cori was born on December 5, 1896, in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic). Carl was the son of Carl Isidor Cori, a zoologist, and Maria Cori (née Lippich), a daughter of the Austrian physician Ferdinand Lippich. The Cori family came from the Papal State (later the Roman Republic, today's Central Italy) to the royal Bohemian crownland, (Monarchical Austria at the end of the 17th century). Carl Ferdinand's grandfather Eduard Cori was an administrative officer and beekeeper in Brüx, and his grandmother was Rosina Trinks. Carl Ferdinand's younger sister Margarete Cori (born 1905) was a lecturer in Prague and the wife of the Bohemian geneticist Felix Mainx. He grew up in Trieste, where his father Carl Isidor was the director of the Marine Biological Station.

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

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for K♣, 8♠, 2♠, 6♠, J♦, 4♥, 4♦, 8♥, 6♣, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠, 3♥, A♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Nobel Prize.

Also on the record

1. In late 1914 the Cori family moved to Prague and Carl entered the medical school of Charles University in Prague.
2. While studying there he met his future wife Gerty Theresa Radnitz.
3. He was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and served in the ski corps, and later was transferred to the sanitary corps, for which he set up a laboratory in Trieste.
4. At the end of the war Carl completed his studies, graduating with Gerty in 1920.

Other laureates with this card

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• Albert Camus — 1957 Literature
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• Bertram N. Brockhouse — 1994 Physics
• Bruce Merrifield — 1984 Chemistry
• Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
• Daniel Bovet — 1957 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
• Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• François Jacob — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick Sanger — 1958 Chemistry; 1980 Chemistry
• Fredrik Bajer — 1908 Peace
• 28 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Carl Cori's birth card?

The King of Clubs. December 5 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 Carl Cori's dates come from?

Birth date 1896-12-05 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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