Donald J. Cram's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

In the record

Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919 – June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. The birth-card coordinate for April 22 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1987 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1987 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

Donald J. Cram's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing 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 Donald J. Cram. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

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Donald J. Cram in the public record

Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." They were the founders of the field of host–guest chemistry. Cram was born and raised in Chester, Vermont, to a Scottish immigrant father, and a German immigrant mother. His father died before Cram turned four, leaving him the only male in a family of five. He grew up on Aid to Dependent Children, and learned to work at an early age, doing jobs such as picking fruit, tossing newspapers, and painting houses, while bartering for piano lessons. By the time he turned eighteen, he had worked at least eighteen different jobs. Cram attended the Winwood High School in Long Island, N.Y. From 1938 to 1941, he attended Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida on a national honorary scholarship, where he worked as an assistant in the chemistry department, and was active in theater, chapel choir, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Society, and Zeta Alpha Epsilon. It was at Rollins that he became known for building his own chemistry equipment.

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Where the record meets the 3 of Hearts

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Cram was born and raised in Chester, Vermont, to a Scottish immigrant father, and a German immigrant mother.

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Also on the record

1. In 1941, he graduated from Rollins College with a BS in chemistry.
2. In 1942, he graduated from the University of Nebraska with a MS in organic chemistry, with Norman O.
3. Cromwell serving as his thesis adviser.
4. His subject was "Amino ketones, mechanism studies of the reactions of heterocyclic secondary amines with -bromo-, -unsaturated ketones." In 1947, Cram graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in organic chemistry, with Louis Fieser serving as the adviser on his dissertation on "Syntheses and reactions of 2-(ketoalkyl)-3-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinones" From 1942 to 1945, Cram worked in chemical research at Merck & Co laboratories, doing penicillin research with mentor Max Tishler.

Other laureates with this card

• Adolf Butenandt — 1939 Chemistry
• Ahmed Zewail — 1999 Chemistry
• Akira Suzuki — 2010 Chemistry
• Alphonse Laveran — 1907 Physiology or Medicine
• Anton Zeilinger — 2022 Physics
• Carolyn Bertozzi — 2022 Chemistry
• Claude Simon — 1985 Literature
• Dario Fo — 1997 Literature
• Dudley R. Herschbach — 1986 Chemistry
• Eduard Buchner — 1907 Chemistry
• Edward B. Lewis — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• Franco Modigliani — 1985 Economic Sciences
• 32 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Donald J. Cram's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. April 22 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 Donald J. Cram's dates come from?

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