Christiaan Eijkman's Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds

In the record

Christiaan Eijkman (UK: AYK-mən, EYEK-mən, US: -⁠mahn, Dutch: [ˈkrɪstijaːn ˈɛikmɑn]; 11 August 1858 – 5 November 1930) was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of antineuritic vitamins (thiamine). The birth-card coordinate for August 11 is the 2 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1929 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1929 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin

The 2 of Diamonds coordinate

Christiaan Eijkman's birthday maps to the 2 of Diamonds (The Financial Partner). 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 Christiaan Eijkman. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides.

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Christiaan Eijkman in the public record

Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins. Christiaan Eijkman was born on 11 August 1858, at Nijkerk, Netherlands, to Christiaan Eijkman, the headmaster of a local school, and Johanna Alida Pool. He was the youngest of seven children. His elder brother Johann Frederik Eijkman (1851–1915) became a physical chemist. A year later, in 1859, the Eijkman family moved to Zaandam, where his father was appointed head of a newly founded school for advanced elementary education. It was here that Christiaan and his brothers received their early education. In 1875, after taking his preliminary examinations, Eijkman became a student at the Military Medical School of the University of Amsterdam, where he was trained as a medical officer for the Netherlands Indies Army, passing through all his examinations with honours. From 1879 to 1881, he was an assistant of Thomas Place, Professor of Physiology, during which time he wrote his thesis Over Polarisatie in de Zenuwen (On Polarization of the Nerves), which earned him his doctoral degree with distinction on 13 July 1883.

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

Where the record meets the 6 of Clubs

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Natural teaching and mentoring ability

Christiaan Eijkman (UK: AYK-mən, EYEK-mən, US: -⁠mahn, Dutch: [ˈkrɪstijaːn ˈɛikmɑn]; 11 August 1858 – 5 November 1930) was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of antineuritic vitamins (thiamine).

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

Also on the record

1. In 1883, Eijkman left the Netherlands for The Dutch East Indies, where he was made medical officer of health, first in Semarang, then later at Tjilatjap, a small village on the south coast of Java, and at Padang Sidempoean in Northern Sumatra.
2. It was at Tjilatjap that he caught malaria, which later so impaired his health that in 1885 he had to return to Europe on sick-leave.
3. For Eijkman this was to prove a lucky event, as it enabled him to work in E.
4. Forster's laboratory in Amsterdam, and also in Robert Koch's bacteriological laboratory in Berlin; here he came into contact with Cornelis Adrianus Pekelharing and Tiberius Cornelis Winkler, who were visiting the German capital before their departure to the Indies.

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• Arvid Carlsson — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• D. Carleton Gajdusek — 1976 Physiology or Medicine
• Desmond Tutu — 1984 Peace
• Didier Queloz — 2019 Physics
• Douglass C. North — 1993 Economic Sciences
• Ferenc Krausz — 2023 Physics
• Glenn T. Seaborg — 1951 Chemistry
• Hans G. Dehmelt — 1989 Physics
• Herbert Simon — 1978 Economic Sciences
• 16 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Christiaan Eijkman's birth card?

The 2 of Diamonds. August 11 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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