Karl von Frisch's Birth Card: The King of Hearts

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Karl Ritter von Frisch (20 November 1886 – 12 June 1982) was a German-Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. The birth-card coordinate for November 20 is the King of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1973 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1973 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns

The King of Hearts coordinate

Karl von Frisch's birthday maps to the King of Hearts (The Compassionate King). 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 Karl von Frisch. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it.

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Karl von Frisch in the public record

His work centered on investigations of the sensory perceptions of the honey bee and he was one of the first to translate the meaning of the waggle dance. His theory, described in his 1927 book Aus dem Leben der Bienen/ (English: "From the Life of Bees", published in the UK and United States as The Dancing Bees), was disputed by other scientists and met with widespread skepticism at the time, only decades later being appreciated as both zoologically accurate and an important step in development of animal behavioral study, and the wider history of biology. Karl Ritter von Frisch was the son of the surgeon and urologist Anton von Frisch, by his marriage to Marie Exner. Karl was the youngest of four sons, all of whom became university professors. Von Frisch was of partial Jewish heritage. Karl studied at the University of Vienna under Hans Leo Przibram and in Munich under Richard von Hertwig, initially in the field of medicine, but later turned to the natural sciences. He received his doctorate in 1910 and in the same year started work as an assistant in the zoology department of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In 1912, he became a lecturer in zoology and comparative anatomy there; and in 1919 was promoted to a professorship.

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Karl Ritter von Frisch was the son of the surgeon and urologist Anton von Frisch, by his marriage to Marie Exner.

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Also on the record

1. His research on honeybees was continued by his student Ingeborg Beling.
2. In 1921 he went to Rostock University as a professor of zoology and director of an institute.
3. In 1923 he accepted the offer of a chair at Breslau University, returning in 1925 to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where he became the head of the institute of zoology.
4. Von Frisch attracted negative attention from the Nazi regime, among other things for employing Jewish assistants, including many women.

Other laureates with this card

• Alvin E. Roth — 2012 Economic Sciences
• André F. Cournand — 1956 Physiology or Medicine
• Arieh Warshel — 2013 Chemistry
• Baruch S. Blumberg — 1976 Physiology or Medicine
• Charles H. Townes — 1964 Physics
• Charles Richet — 1913 Physiology or Medicine
• Clinton Davisson — 1937 Physics
• Czesław Miłosz — 1980 Literature
• Doris Lessing — 2007 Literature
• George Beadle — 1958 Physiology or Medicine
• Harold E. Varmus — 1989 Physiology or Medicine
• Ivan Bunin — 1933 Literature
• 10 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Karl von Frisch's birth card?

The King of Hearts. November 20 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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