Hugo Theorell's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds

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Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell (6 July 1903 – 15 August 1982) was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine. The birth-card coordinate for July 6 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1955 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1955 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes

The 9 of Diamonds coordinate

Hugo Theorell's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). 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 Hugo Theorell. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.

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Hugo Theorell in the public record

He was born in Linköping as the son of Thure Theorell and his wife Armida Bill. Theorell went to Secondary School at Katedralskolan in Linköping and passed his examination there on 23 May 1921. In September, he began to study medicine at the Karolinska Institute and in 1924 he graduated as a Bachelor of Medicine. He then spent three months studying bacteriology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris under Professor Albert Calmette. In 1930 he obtained his M.D. degree with a theory on the lipids of the blood plasma, and was appointed professor in physiological chemistry at the Karolinska Institute. Theorell, who dedicated his entire career to enzyme research, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1955 for discovering oxidoreductase enzymes and their effects. His contribution also consisted of the theory of the toxic effects of sodium fluoride on the cofactors of crucial human enzymes. In 1936 he was appointed Head of the newly established Biochemical Department of the Nobel Medical Institute, the first researcher related to the Institute to be awarded a Nobel Prize.

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

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Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell (6 July 1903 – 15 August 1982) was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine.

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Also on the record

1. His work had led to pioneering progress on alcohol dehydrogenases, enzymes that break down alcohol in the liver and other tissues.
2. He received honorary degrees at universities in France, Belgium, Brazil and the United States.
3. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the United States National Academy of Sciences, and an International Member of the American Philosophical Society.
4. Theorell died in Stockholm and is interred in Norra begravningsplatsen (The Northern Cemetery) alongside his wife, Elin Margit Elisabeth (née Alenius) Theorell, a distinguished pianist and harpsichordist who died in 2002.

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• George E. Smith — 2009 Physics
• Giorgio Parisi — 2021 Physics
• Gustav Stresemann — 1926 Peace
• Jacques Dubochet — 2017 Chemistry
• Jan Tinbergen — 1969 Economic Sciences
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• 9 more laureates share this card.

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What is Hugo Theorell's birth card?

The 9 of Diamonds. July 6 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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