Ei-ichi Negishi's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds

In the record

Ei-ichi Negishi (根岸 英一, Negishi Eiichi; 14 July 1935 – 6 June 2021) was a Japanese chemist who was best known for his discovery of the Negishi coupling. The birth-card coordinate for July 14 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2010 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2010 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis

The Ace of Diamonds coordinate

Ei-ichi Negishi's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth Pioneer). 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 Ei-ichi Negishi. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.

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Ei-ichi Negishi in the public record

He spent most of his career at Purdue University in the United States, where he was the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor and the director of the Negishi-Brown Institute. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for palladium catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" jointly with Richard F. Heck and Akira Suzuki. Negishi was born in Xinjing (today known as Changchun), the capital of Manchukuo, in July 1935. Following the transfer of his father who worked at the South Manchuria Railway in 1936, he moved to Harbin, and lived eight years there. In 1943, when he was nine, the Negishi family moved to Incheon, and a year later to Kyongsong Prefecture (now Seoul), both in Japanese-occupied Korea. In November 1945, three months after World War II ended, they moved to Japan.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Diamonds

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Natural resource building and accumulation

Negishi was born in Xinjing (today known as Changchun), the capital of Manchukuo, in July 1935.

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Also on the record

1. Since he excelled as a student, a year ahead of what would have been his graduation from grammar school, he was admitted to an elite secondary school, Shonan High School.
2. At the age of 17, he gained admission to the University of Tokyo.
3. After graduation from the University of Tokyo in 1958, Negishi did his internship at Teijin, where he conducted research on polymer chemistry.
4. Later, he continued his studies in the United States after having won a Fulbright Scholarship and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963, under the supervision of professor Allan R.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred D. Hershey — 1969 Physiology or Medicine
• Andrea Ghez — 2020 Physics
• Arthur H. Compton — 1927 Physics
• Barbara McClintock — 1983 Physiology or Medicine
• Bernard L. Feringa — 2016 Chemistry
• Bertrand Russell — 1950 Literature
• Brian P. Schmidt — 2011 Physics
• Burton Richter — 1976 Physics
• César Milstein — 1984 Physiology or Medicine
• David J. Wineland — 2012 Physics
• Erwin Schrödinger — 1933 Physics
• François Englert — 2013 Physics
• 18 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Ei-ichi Negishi's birth card?

The Ace of Diamonds. July 14 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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