David W.C. MacMillan's Birth Card: The 7 of Diamonds

In the record

Sir David William Cross MacMillan (born 16 March 1968) is a Scottish chemist and the James S. The birth-card coordinate for March 16 is the 7 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2021 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2021 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis

The 7 of Diamonds coordinate

David W.C. MacMillan's birthday maps to the 7 of Diamonds (The Skeptical Investor). 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 David W.C. MacMillan. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You look at worth without reducing it to the account balance.

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David W.C. MacMillan in the public record

McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, where he was also the chair of the Department of Chemistry from 2010 to 2015. He is also a Distinguished Scholar at the Princeton Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis". MacMillan used his share of the $1.14 million prize to establish the May and Billy MacMillan Foundation. MacMillan was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1968 and grew up in nearby New Stevenston. His father was a steelworker, while his grandfather was a miner. He attended the local state-funded schools, New Stevenston Primary and Bellshill Academy, and credited his Scottish education and Scottish upbringing for his success. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Glasgow, where he worked with Ernie Colvin.

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McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, where he was also the chair of the Department of Chemistry from 2010 to 2015.

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Also on the record

1. In 1990, he left the UK to begin his doctoral studies under the direction of Professor Larry Overman at the University of California, Irvine.
2. During this time, he focused on the development of new reaction methodology directed toward the stereocontrolled formation of bicyclic tetrahydrofurans.
3. MacMillan's graduate studies culminated in the total synthesis of 7-(−)-deacetoxyalcyonin acetate, a eunicellin diterpenoid isolated from the soft coral Eunicella stricta.
4. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996.

Other laureates with this card

• Alan MacDiarmid — 2000 Chemistry
• Christian de Duve — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
• Clive W.J. Granger — 2003 Economic Sciences
• Cordell Hull — 1945 Peace
• David M. Lee — 1996 Physics
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — 1964 Chemistry
• Frederick Reines — 1995 Physics
• Igor Y. Tamm — 1958 Physics
• Johannes V. Jensen — 1944 Literature
• Lord Todd — 1957 Chemistry
• Maria Ressa — 2021 Peace
• Max Delbrück — 1969 Physiology or Medicine
• 11 more laureates share this card.

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What is David W.C. MacMillan's birth card?

The 7 of Diamonds. March 16 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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