Konrad Bloch's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds

In the record

Konrad Emil Bloch (21 January 1912 – 15 October 2000) was a German-American biochemist. The birth-card coordinate for January 21 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1964 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1964 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism

The 6 of Diamonds coordinate

Konrad Bloch's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). 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 Konrad Bloch. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.

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Konrad Bloch in the public record

Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 (joint with Feodor Lynen) for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. Bloch was born in Neisse (now Nysa, Poland), in the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia into a Jewish family. He was the second child of middle-class parents Hedwig (Striemer) and Frederich D. "Fritz" Bloch. He was a student at the Gymnasium Carolinum in Nysa and then 1930 to 1934, he studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich. In 1934, due to the Nazi persecutions of Jews, he fled to the Schweizerische Forschungsinstitut in Davos, Switzerland, before moving to the United States in 1936. Later he was appointed to the department of biological chemistry at Yale Medical School. In the United States, Bloch enrolled at Columbia University, and received a PhD in biochemistry in 1938.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Spades

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Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 (joint with Feodor Lynen) for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: medicine.

Also on the record

1. He taught at Columbia from 1939 to 1946.
2. From there he went to the University of Chicago and then to Harvard University as Higgins Professor of Biochemistry in 1954, a post he held until 1982.
3. From 1979 until 1984, he was a professor of science at their School of Public Health.
4. After retirement at Harvard, he served as the Mack and Effie Campbell Tyner Eminent Scholar Chair in the College of Human Sciences at Florida State University.

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• Charles J. Pedersen — 1987 Chemistry
• David J. Gross — 2004 Physics
• Elinor Ostrom — 2009 Economic Sciences
• J. Robin Warren — 2005 Physiology or Medicine
• James M. Buchanan Jr. — 1986 Economic Sciences
• James P. Allison — 2018 Physiology or Medicine
• Jennifer A. Doudna — 2020 Chemistry
• Johannes Stark — 1919 Physics
• 15 more laureates share this card.

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What is Konrad Bloch's birth card?

The 6 of Diamonds. January 21 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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