Lord Todd's Birth Card: The 7 of Diamonds

In the record

Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd (2 October 1907 – 10 January 1997) was a British biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1957. The birth-card coordinate for October 2 is the 7 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1957 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1957 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes

The 7 of Diamonds coordinate

Lord Todd's birthday maps to the 7 of Diamonds (The Skeptical Investor). 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 Lord Todd. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You look at worth without reducing it to the account balance.

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Lord Todd in the public record

Todd was born at Cathcart in outer Glasgow, the elder son of Alexander Todd, JP, a clerk with the Glasgow Subway, and his wife, Jane Lowry. He attended Allan Glen's School and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a bachelor's degree (BSc) in 1928. He received a doctorate (Dr Phil.nat.) from Goethe University Frankfurt in 1931 for his thesis on the chemistry of the bile acids. Todd was awarded an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, and, after studying at Oriel College, Oxford, he received another doctorate (DPhil) in 1933. Todd held posts with the Lister Institute, the University of Edinburgh (staff, 1934–1936) and the University of London, where he was appointed Reader in biochemistry. In 1938, Alexander Todd spent six months as a visiting professor at California Institute of Technology, eventually declining an offer of faculty position. Todd became the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry and director of the Chemical Laboratories of the University of Manchester in 1938, where he began working on nucleosides, compounds that form the structural units of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA). At 31, he was the youngest professor of chemistry since Frankland.

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

Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs

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Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective

Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd (2 October 1907 – 10 January 1997) was a British biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1957.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: chemistry, research. This line comes from the Mars position of the 7♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. He was elected to membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1938.
2. In 1944, he was appointed to the 1702 Chair of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge, which he held until his retirement in 1971.
3. In 1949, he synthesised adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD).
4. Todd served as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago in Autumn 1948 and University of Sydney in 1950.

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FAQ

What is Lord Todd's birth card?

The 7 of Diamonds. October 2 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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