George Porter's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

In the record

George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, (6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a British chemist. The birth-card coordinate for December 6 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1967 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1967 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

George Porter'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 George Porter. 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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George Porter in the public record

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, in the then West Riding of Yorkshire. He was educated at Thorne Grammar School, then won a scholarship to the University of Leeds and gained his first degree in chemistry. During his degree, Porter was taught by Meredith Gwynne Evans, who he said was the most brilliant chemist he had ever met. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1949 for research investigating free radicals produced by photochemical means. He later became a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. During the Second World War Porter served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He then went on to do research supervised by Ronald George Wreyford Norrish at the University of Cambridge, where he began the work that ultimately led to them becoming Nobel laureates.

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

Where the record meets the Queen of Clubs

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Deep wisdom and thoughtful guidance

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: chemistry.

Also on the record

1. His original research in developing the technique of flash photolysis to obtain information on short-lived molecular species provided the first evidence of free radicals.
2. His later research utilised the technique to study the detailed aspects of the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis, with particular regard to possible applications to a hydrogen economy, of which he was a strong advocate.
3. From 1953 to 1954 he served as Assistant Director of the British Rayon Research Association, where he studied the phototendering of dyed cellulose fabrics in sunlight.
4. Porter served as professor in the Chemistry department at the University of Sheffield from 1954 to 1965.

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• Carolyn Bertozzi — 2022 Chemistry
• Claude Simon — 1985 Literature
• Dario Fo — 1997 Literature
• Donald J. Cram — 1987 Chemistry
• Dudley R. Herschbach — 1986 Chemistry
• Eduard Buchner — 1907 Chemistry
• Edward B. Lewis — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• 32 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is George Porter's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. December 6 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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