James B. Sumner's Birth Card: The Ace of Clubs

In the record

James Batcheller Sumner (November 19, 1887 – August 12, 1955) was an American biochemist. The birth-card coordinate for November 19 is the Ace of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1946 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1946 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized

The Ace of Clubs coordinate

James B. Sumner's birthday maps to the Ace of Clubs (The Creative Pioneer). 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 James B. Sumner. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a new idea while it is still usable, and you let it meet the world unfinished.

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James B. Sumner in the public record

He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley. He was also the first to prove that enzymes are proteins. Sumner was born on November 19, 1887, in Canton, Massachusetts. While hunting at age 17, Sumner was accidentally shot by a companion and as a result his left arm had to be amputated just below the elbow. He had been left-handed before the accident, after which he had to learn to do things with his right hand. Sumner graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1910 where he was acquainted with prominent chemists Roger Adams, Farrington Daniels, Frank C. Whitmore, James Bryant Conant and Charles Loring Jackson. After a short period of working in the cotton knitting factory owned by his uncle, he accepted a teaching position at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Clubs

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Original thinking and idea generation

He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley.

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

Also on the record

1. For the year 1911-12 he worked as a teaching assistantship in chemistry at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
2. In 1912, he went to study biochemistry in Harvard Medical School and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1914 with Otto Folin.
3. He then worked as assistant professor of biochemistry at Cornell Medical School in Ithaca, NY.
4. Sumner married Cid Ricketts (born Bertha Louise Ricketts in Brookhaven, Mississippi) when she attended medical school at Cornell.

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• Frederick C. Robbins — 1954 Physiology or Medicine
• George E. Palade — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
• Giosuè Carducci — 1906 Literature
• Hans Fischer — 1930 Chemistry
• Hans Krebs — 1953 Physiology or Medicine
• Herbert Kroemer — 2000 Physics
• 14 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is James B. Sumner's birth card?

The Ace of Clubs. November 19 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 James B. Sumner's dates come from?

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