Herbert A. Hauptman's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

In the record

Herbert Aaron Hauptman (February 14, 1917 – October 23, 2011) was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. The birth-card coordinate for February 14 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1985 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1985 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Herbert A. Hauptman's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). 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 Herbert A. Hauptman. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

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Herbert A. Hauptman in the public record

He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials. Today, Hauptman's direct methods, which he continued to improve and refine, are routinely used to solve complicated structures. It was the application of this mathematical method to a wide variety of chemical structures that led the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to name Hauptman and Jerome Karle recipients of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the oldest child of Leah (Rosenfeld) and Israel Hauptman. He was married to Edith Citrynell since November 10, 1940, with two daughters, Barbara (1947) and Carol (1950). He was interested in science and mathematics from an early age which he pursued at Townsend Harris High School, graduated from the City College of New York (1937) and obtained an M.A. degree in mathematics from Columbia University in 1939. After the war he started a collaboration with Jerome Karle at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and at the same time enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1955 in mathematics with a dissertation in the number theory classification.

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

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Ability to inspire intellectual breakthroughs

He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials.

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

Also on the record

1. This combination of mathematics and physical chemistry expertise enabled them to tackle head-on the phase problem of X-ray crystallography.
2. His work on this problem was criticized because, at the time, the problem was believed unsolvable.
3. By 1955 he had received his Ph.D. in mathematics, and they had laid the foundations of the direct methods in X-ray crystallography.
4. Their 1953 monograph, "Solution of the Phase Problem I.

Other laureates with this card

• André Lwoff — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Bernardo Houssay — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• C.T.R. Wilson — 1927 Physics
• Edwin G. Krebs — 1992 Physiology or Medicine
• Eugene F. Fama — 2013 Economic Sciences
• Ferdinand Braun — 1909 Physics
• Friedrich von Hayek — 1974 Economic Sciences
• Gerard Debreu — 1983 Economic Sciences
• H. Robert Horvitz — 2002 Physiology or Medicine
• Heinrich Rohrer — 1986 Physics
• Henry Dunant — 1901 Peace
• Jules A. Hoffmann — 2011 Physiology or Medicine
• 8 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Herbert A. Hauptman's birth card?

The Jack of Diamonds. February 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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