John C. Kendrew's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

In the record

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, (24 March 1917 – 23 August 1997) was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator. The birth-card coordinate for March 24 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1962 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1962 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their studies of the structures of globular proteins

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

John C. Kendrew'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 John C. Kendrew. 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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John C. Kendrew in the public record

Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz, for their work at the Cavendish Laboratory to investigate the structure of haem-containing proteins. Kendrew was born in Oxford, son of Wilfrid George Kendrew, reader in climatology in the University of Oxford, and Evelyn May Graham Sandburg, art historian. After preparatory school at the Dragon School in Oxford, he was educated at Clifton College in Bristol, 1930–1936. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge in 1936, as a Major Scholar, graduating in chemistry in 1939. He spent the early months of World War II doing research on reaction kinetics, and then became a member of the Air Ministry Research Establishment, working on radar. In 1940 he became engaged in operational research at the Royal Air Force headquarters; commissioned a squadron leader on 17 September 1941, he was appointed an honorary wing commander on 8 June 1944, and relinquished his commission on 5 June 1945. He was awarded his PhD after the war in 1949. During the war years, he became increasingly interested in biochemical problems, and decided to work on the structure of proteins.

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Deep wisdom and thoughtful guidance

Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz, for their work at the Cavendish Laboratory to investigate the structure of haem-containing proteins.

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Also on the record

1. In 1945 he approached Max Perutz in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.
2. Joseph Barcroft, a respiratory physiologist, suggested he might make a comparative protein crystallographic study of adult and foetal sheep haemoglobin, and he started that work.
3. In 1947 he became a Fellow of Peterhouse; and the Medical Research Council (MRC) agreed to create a research unit for the study of the molecular structure of biological systems, under the direction of Sir Lawrence Bragg.
4. In 1954 he became a Reader at the Davy-Faraday Laboratory of the Royal Institution in London.

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• 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.

FAQ

What is John C. Kendrew's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. March 24 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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