Christian Anfinsen's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr. (March 26, 1916 – May 14, 1995) was an American biochemist. The birth-card coordinate for March 26 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1972 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1972 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Christian Anfinsen's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master Builder). 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 Christian Anfinsen. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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Christian Anfinsen in the public record

He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation (see Anfinsen's dogma). Anfinsen was born in Monessen, Pennsylvania, into a family of Norwegian-American immigrants. His parents were Sophie (née Rasmussen) and Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Sr., a mechanical engineer. The family moved to Philadelphia in the 1920s. In 1933, he went to Swarthmore College where he played varsity football and earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1937. In 1939, he earned a master's degree in organic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded an American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowship to develop new methods for analyzing the chemical structure of complex proteins, namely enzymes, at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1941, Anfinsen was offered a university fellowship for doctoral study in the Department of Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School where he received his PhD in biochemistry in 1943. During World War II he worked for the Office of Scientific Research and Development.

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

Where the record meets the 10 of Clubs

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He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation (see Anfinsen's dogma).

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Also on the record

1. Anfinsen had three children with his first wife, Florence Kenenger, to whom he was married from 1941 to 1978.
2. In 1979, he married Libby Shulman Ely, with whom he had 4 stepchildren, and converted to Orthodox Judaism.
3. However, Anfinsen wrote in 1987 that "my feelings about religion still very strongly reflect a fifty-year period of orthodox agnosticism." His papers were donated to the National Library of Medicine by Libby Anfinsen between 1998 and 1999.
4. In 1950, the National Heart Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, recruited Anfinsen as chief of its laboratory of cell physiology.

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• 28 more laureates share this card.

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What is Christian Anfinsen's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. March 26 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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