Jens C. Skou's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds

In the record

Jens Christian Skou (8 October 1918 – 28 May 2018) was a Danish biochemist and Nobel laureate. The birth-card coordinate for October 8 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1997 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1997 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase

The Ace of Diamonds coordinate

Jens C. Skou's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth 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 Jens C. Skou. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.

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Jens C. Skou in the public record

Skou was born in Lemvig, Denmark to a wealthy family. His father Magnus Martinus Skou was a timber and coal merchant. His mother Ane-Margrethe Skou took over the company after the death of his father. At the age of 15, Skou entered a boarding school in Haslev, Zealand. He graduated in medicine from the University of Copenhagen in 1944 and received his doctorate in 1954. He began working at the Aarhus University in 1947 and was appointed professor of biophysics in 1977. He retired from the Aarhus University in 1988, but kept offices at the Department of Physiology (today part of the Department of Biomedicine). In 1997 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (together with Paul D.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Hearts

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Courage to initiate genuine emotional connection

His mother Ane-Margrethe Skou took over the company after the death of his father.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: father, mother.

Also on the record

1. Boyer and John E.
2. Walker) for his discovery of Na+,K+-ATPase, the first at Aarhus University.
3. Skou had taken a few years away from his clinical training in the early 1950s to study the action of local anaesthetics.
4. He had discovered that a substance’s anaesthetic action was related to its ability to dissolve in a layer of the lipid part of the plasma membrane, the anaesthetic molecules affected the opening of sodium channels which he assumed to be protein.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred D. Hershey — 1969 Physiology or Medicine
• Andrea Ghez — 2020 Physics
• Arthur H. Compton — 1927 Physics
• Barbara McClintock — 1983 Physiology or Medicine
• Bernard L. Feringa — 2016 Chemistry
• Bertrand Russell — 1950 Literature
• Brian P. Schmidt — 2011 Physics
• Burton Richter — 1976 Physics
• César Milstein — 1984 Physiology or Medicine
• David J. Wineland — 2012 Physics
• Ei-ichi Negishi — 2010 Chemistry
• Erwin Schrödinger — 1933 Physics
• 18 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Jens C. Skou's birth card?

The Ace of Diamonds. October 8 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?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.

Where do Jens C. Skou's dates come from?

Birth date 1918-10-08 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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