Hans Spemann's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

In the record

Hans Spemann (German: [ˈhans ˈʃpeeːˌman] ; 27 June 1869 – 9 September 1941) was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his student Hilde Mangold's discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, an influence, exercised by various parts of the embryo, that directs the development of groups of cells into particular tissues and organs, one of the first steps towards cloning. The birth-card coordinate for June 27 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1935 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1935 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development

The 3 of Clubs coordinate

Hans Spemann's birthday maps to the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). 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 Hans Spemann. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move an idea across more than one channel without abandoning the one that needs depth.

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Hans Spemann in the public record

Spemann added his name as an author to Hilde Mangold's dissertation (although she objected) and won a Nobel Prize for her work. Hans Spemann was born in Stuttgart, the eldest son of publisher Wilhelm Spemann and his wife Lisinka, née Hoffman. After he left school in 1888, he spent a year in his father's business, then, from 1889 to 1890, he did military service in the Kassel Hussars followed by a short time as a bookseller in Hamburg. In 1891, he entered Heidelberg University where he studied medicine, taking his preliminary examination in 1893. There, he met the biologist and psychologist Gustav Wolff who had begun experiments on the embryological developments of newts and shown that, if the lens of a developing newt's eye is removed, it regenerates. In 1892, Spemann married Klara Binder with whom he had a daughter (Margaret) and three sons (Fritz, Rudolph, Ulrich). From 1893 to 1894, he moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München for clinical training but decided, rather than becoming a clinician, to move to the Zoological Institute at the University of Würzburg, where he remained as a lecturer until 1908. His degree in zoology, botany, and physics, awarded in 1895, followed study under Theodor Boveri, Julius von Sachs and Wilhelm Röntgen.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Clubs

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Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly

Spemann added his name as an author to Hilde Mangold's dissertation (although she objected) and won a Nobel Prize for her work.

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

Also on the record

1. He was a protestant.
2. For his Ph.D. thesis under Boveri, Spemann studied cell lineage in the parasitic worm Strongylus paradoxus, for his teaching diploma, the development of the middle ear in the frog.
3. Spemann advocated a holistic approach to biology.
4. During the winter of 1896, while quarantined in a sanitarium recovering from tuberculosis, Spemann read August Weismann's book The Germ Plasm: A Theory of Heredity.

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• Eugene Wigner — 1963 Physics
• Frances H. Arnold — 2018 Chemistry
• Hamilton O. Smith — 1978 Physiology or Medicine
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — 1913 Physics
• Henri Becquerel — 1903 Physics
• Jean Dausset — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
• John B. Goodenough — 2019 Chemistry
• 14 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Hans Spemann's birth card?

The 3 of Clubs. June 27 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 Hans Spemann's dates come from?

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