Hermann Staudinger's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

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Hermann Staudinger (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈʃtaʊ̯dɪŋɐ] ; 23 March 1881 – 8 September 1965) was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers. The birth-card coordinate for March 23 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1953 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1953 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry

The King of Clubs coordinate

Hermann Staudinger's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master 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 Hermann Staudinger. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Hermann Staudinger in the public record

For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is also known for his discovery of ketenes and of the Staudinger reaction. Staudinger, together with Leopold Ružička, also elucidated the molecular structures of pyrethrin I and II in the 1920s, enabling the development of pyrethroid insecticides in the 1960s and 1970s. Staudinger was born in 1881 in Worms. Staudinger, who initially wanted to become a botanist, studied chemistry at the University of Halle, at Technische Hochschule Darmstadt and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He received his "Verbandsexamen" (comparable to master's degree) from the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Halle in 1903, Staudinger qualified as an academic lecturer at the University of Strasbourg in 1907. He was supported in his work by his new wife Dora Staudinger who wrote up his lectures.

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For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Also on the record

1. It was here that he discovered the ketenes, a family of molecules characterized by the general form depicted in Figure 1.
2. Ketenes would prove a synthetically important intermediate for the production of yet-to-be-discovered antibiotics such as penicillin and amoxicillin.
3. In 1907, Staudinger began an assistant professorship at the Technical University of Karlsruhe.
4. Here, he successfully isolated a number of useful organic compounds (including a synthetic coffee flavoring) as more completely reviewed by Rolf Mülhaupt.

Other laureates with this card

• A. Michael Spence — 2001 Economic Sciences
• Albert Camus — 1957 Literature
• Barry C. Barish — 2017 Physics
• Bertram N. Brockhouse — 1994 Physics
• Bruce Merrifield — 1984 Chemistry
• Carl Cori — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
• Daniel Bovet — 1957 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
• Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• François Jacob — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick Sanger — 1958 Chemistry; 1980 Chemistry
• 28 more laureates share this card.

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