Jerome Karle's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

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Jerome Karle (born Jerome Karfunkle; June 18, 1918 – June 6, 2013) was an American physical chemist. The birth-card coordinate for June 18 is the Queen of Clubs — 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 Queen of Clubs coordinate

Jerome Karle's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing 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 Jerome Karle. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

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Jerome Karle in the public record

Jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques. Karle was born in New York City, on June 18, 1918, the son of Sadie Helen (Kun) and Louis Karfunkle. He was born into a Jewish family with a strong interest in the arts. He had played piano as a youth and had participated in a number of competitions, but he was far more interested in science. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, and would later join Arthur Kornberg (awarded the Nobel in Medicine in 1959) and Paul Berg (a winner in Chemistry in 1980), as graduates of the school to win Nobel Prizes. As a youth, Karle enjoyed handball, ice skating, touch football and swimming in the nearby Atlantic Ocean. He started college at the age of 15 and received his bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1937, where he took additional courses in biology, chemistry and math in addition to the required curriculum there.

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Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques.

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Also on the record

1. He earned a master's degree from Harvard University in 1938, having majored in biology.
2. As part of a plan to accumulate enough money to pay for further graduate studies, Karle took a position in Albany, New York with the New York State Department of Health, where he developed a method to measure dissolved fluoride levels, a technique that would become a standard for water fluoridation.
3. He enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1940 and met his future wife, Isabella Lugoski, who was sitting at an adjoining desk during his first course in physical chemistry.
4. The two married in 1942.

Other laureates with this card

• Adolf Butenandt — 1939 Chemistry
• Ahmed Zewail — 1999 Chemistry
• Akira Suzuki — 2010 Chemistry
• Alphonse Laveran — 1907 Physiology or Medicine
• Anton Zeilinger — 2022 Physics
• Carolyn Bertozzi — 2022 Chemistry
• Claude Simon — 1985 Literature
• Dario Fo — 1997 Literature
• Donald J. Cram — 1987 Chemistry
• Dudley R. Herschbach — 1986 Chemistry
• Eduard Buchner — 1907 Chemistry
• Edward B. Lewis — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• 32 more laureates share this card.

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What is Jerome Karle's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. June 18 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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