Konrad Lorenz's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

In the record

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Austrian German: [ˈkɔnraːd tsaxaˈriːas ˈloːrɛnts] ; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. The birth-card coordinate for November 7 is the King of Clubs — 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 Clubs coordinate

Konrad Lorenz's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master 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 Konrad Lorenz. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Konrad Lorenz in the public record

He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth. Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws. Working with geese, he investigated the principle of imprinting, the process by which some nidifugous birds (i.e. birds that leave their nest early) bond instinctively with the first moving object that they see within the first hours of hatching. Although Lorenz did not discover the topic, he became widely known for his descriptions of imprinting as an instinctive bond. In 1936, he met Tinbergen, and the two collaborated in developing ethology as a separate sub-discipline of biology. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Lorenz the 65th most cited scholar of the 20th century in the technical psychology journals, introductory psychology textbooks, and survey responses.

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

Where the record meets the King of Clubs

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He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.

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Also on the record

1. Lorenz's work was interrupted by the onset of World War II, and in 1941 he was recruited into the German Army as a medic.
2. In 1944, he was sent to the Eastern Front, where he was captured by the Soviet Red Army and spent four years as a German prisoner of war in Soviet Armenia.
3. After the war, he regretted his membership in the Nazi Party.
4. Lorenz wrote numerous books, some of which, such as King Solomon's Ring, On Aggression, and Man Meets Dog, became popular reading.

Other laureates with this card

• A. Michael Spence — 2001 Economic Sciences
• Albert Camus — 1957 Literature
• Barry C. Barish — 2017 Physics
• Bertram N. Brockhouse — 1994 Physics
• Bruce Merrifield — 1984 Chemistry
• Carl Cori — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
• Daniel Bovet — 1957 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
• Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• François Jacob — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick Sanger — 1958 Chemistry; 1980 Chemistry
• 28 more laureates share this card.

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What is Konrad Lorenz's birth card?

The King of Clubs. November 7 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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