K. Barry Sharpless's Birth Card: The 6 of Clubs

In the record

Karl Barry Sharpless (born April 28, 1941) is an American stereochemist. The birth-card coordinate for April 28 is the 6 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2001 Chemistry; 2022 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2001 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions
• 2022 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry

The 6 of Clubs coordinate

K. Barry Sharpless's birthday maps to the 6 of Clubs (The Nurturing Creator). 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 K. Barry Sharpless. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson.

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K. Barry Sharpless in the public record

He is a two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry, known for his work on stereoselective reactions and click chemistry. Sharpless was awarded half of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions", and one third of the 2022 prize, jointly with Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Morten P. Meldal, "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". Sharpless is the fifth person (in addition to two organizations) to have twice been awarded a Nobel prize, along with Marie Curie, John Bardeen, Linus Pauling and Frederick Sanger, and the third to have been awarded two prizes in the same discipline (after Bardeen and Sanger). Sharpless was born April 28, 1941, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His childhood was filled with summers at his family cottage on the Manasquan River in New Jersey. This is where Sharpless developed a love for fishing that he would continue throughout his life, spending summers in college working on fishing boats.

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

Where the record meets the 6 of Clubs

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Natural teaching and mentoring ability

He is a two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry, known for his work on stereoselective reactions and click chemistry.

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

Also on the record

1. He graduated from Friends' Central School in 1959, and continued his studies at Dartmouth College, earning an A.B. degree in 1963.
2. Sharpless originally planned to attend medical school after his undergraduate degree, but his research professor convinced him to continue his education in chemistry.
3. He earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Stanford University in 1968 under Eugene van Tamelen.
4. He continued post-doctoral work at Stanford University (1968–1969) with James P.

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• Eric S. Maskin — 2007 Economic Sciences
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• Frederick G. Banting — 1923 Physiology or Medicine
• Gustav Hertz — 1925 Physics
• Günter Grass — 1999 Literature
• Hideki Shirakawa — 2000 Chemistry
• Joshua D. Angrist — 2021 Economic Sciences
• Martin L. Perl — 1995 Physics
• Roger W. Sperry — 1981 Physiology or Medicine
• Salvatore Quasimodo — 1959 Literature
• 5 more laureates share this card.

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What is K. Barry Sharpless's birth card?

The 6 of Clubs. April 28 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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