Feodor Lynen's Birth Card: The 2 of Spades

In the record

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (6 April 1911 – 6 August 1979) was a German biochemist. The birth-card coordinate for April 6 is the 2 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1964 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1964 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism

The 2 of Spades coordinate

Feodor Lynen's birthday maps to the 2 of Spades (The Skeptical 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 Feodor Lynen. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world.

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Feodor Lynen in the public record

In 1964, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism while he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich. Feodor Lynen was born in Munich on 6 April 1911. His parents were Wilhelm Lynen, who taught mechanical engineering, and Frieda née Prym, whose father was an industrialist. He started his studies at the chemistry department of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) in 1930 and graduated in March 1937 under Heinrich Wieland with the work: "On the Toxic Substances in Amanita". Lynen remained in Germany throughout World War II. In 1942, he became a chemistry lecturer at LMU. In 1947, he became an assistant professor and in 1953 a professor of biochemistry. From 1954 onwards, he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich, a position which was created for him at the instigation of two senior scientists, Otto Warburg and Otto Hahn.

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

Where the record meets the 2 of Spades

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Ability to hold multiple perspectives simultaneously

In 1964, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism while he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: medicine.

Also on the record

1. In 1972, that institute was merged into the newly founded Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in 1972.
2. Also in 1972, Lynen was named President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh).
3. In 1964, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.
4. These discoveries took many years to work out.

Other laureates with this card

• Boris Pasternak — 1958 Literature
• Edmond H. Fischer — 1992 Physiology or Medicine
• Edward C. Kendall — 1950 Physiology or Medicine
• Georges Pire — 1958 Peace
• Horst L. Störmer — 1998 Physics
• James Watson — 1962 Physiology or Medicine
• John F. Enders — 1954 Physiology or Medicine
• Karl Gjellerup — 1917 Literature
• Lloyd S. Shapley — 2012 Economic Sciences
• Michel Mayor — 2019 Physics
• Otto Hahn — 1944 Chemistry
• Paul Müller — 1948 Physiology or Medicine
• 1 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Feodor Lynen's birth card?

The 2 of Spades. April 6 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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