Charles Nicolle's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

In the record

Charles Jules Henri Nicolle (21 September 1866 – 28 February 1936) was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. The birth-card coordinate for September 21 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1928 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1928 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his work on typhus

The 3 of Clubs coordinate

Charles Nicolle's birthday maps to the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). 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 Charles Nicolle. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move an idea across more than one channel without abandoning the one that needs depth.

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Charles Nicolle in the public record

Nicolle was born to Aline Louvrier and Eugène Nicolle in Rouen, France and was raised as part of a middle-class family that valued education. He had two other siblings – his older brother, Maurice Nicolle (a medical microbiologist, professor at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and Director of the Bacteriological Institute of Constantinople), and his younger brother, Marcel Nicolle (an art critic). Nicole later married Alice Avice in 1895 and had two children, Marcelle (b. 1896) and Pierre (b. 1898), both of whom also went on to enter the medical field. The earliest educational influences on Nicolle were from his father, a doctor at a Rouen hospital. Nicolle later received his education from the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, followed by his medical degree from the Pasteur Institute of Paris in 1893. At this point he returned to Rouen, as a member of the Medical Faculty until 1896 and then as Director of the Bacteriological Laboratory from 1896 to 1902.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Clubs

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Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly

Nicolle was born to Aline Louvrier and Eugène Nicolle in Rouen, France and was raised as part of a middle-class family that valued education.

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

Also on the record

1. Around this time, Nicolle also became deaf.
2. He did just that in 1903, when he became Director of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis and conducted his Nobel Prize-winning work on typhus, bringing Hélène Sparrow with him as laboratory chief.
3. He was still director of the Institute when he died in 1936.
4. Before Nicolle took on the position of leading the Pasteur Institute in Tunis, the Pasteur Institute in Paris remained the predominant centre for research in France as it aimed to combine medical research, teaching, and public service (treatment of diseases) under Pasteurian missionary principles.

Other laureates with this card

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• David J. Thouless — 2016 Physics
• Donald A. Glaser — 1960 Physics
• Elias Canetti — 1981 Literature
• Eugene Wigner — 1963 Physics
• Frances H. Arnold — 2018 Chemistry
• Hamilton O. Smith — 1978 Physiology or Medicine
• Hans Spemann — 1935 Physiology or Medicine
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — 1913 Physics
• Henri Becquerel — 1903 Physics
• Jean Dausset — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
• John B. Goodenough — 2019 Chemistry
• 14 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Charles Nicolle's birth card?

The 3 of Clubs. September 21 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 Charles Nicolle's dates come from?

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