M. Stanley Whittingham's Birth Card: The 9 of Hearts

In the record

Sir Michael Stanley Whittingham (born 22 December 1941) is a British-American chemist. The birth-card coordinate for December 22 is the 9 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2019 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2019 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the development of lithium-ion batteries

The 9 of Hearts coordinate

M. Stanley Whittingham's birthday maps to the 9 of Hearts (The Compassionate Idealist). 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 M. Stanley Whittingham. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay kind without picking up what is not yours.

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M. Stanley Whittingham in the public record

He is a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He also serves as director of the Northeastern Center for Chemical Energy Storage (NECCES) of the U.S. Department of Energy at Binghamton. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside Akira Yoshino and John B. Goodenough. Whittingham is a key figure in the history of lithium-ion batteries, which are used in everything from mobile phones to electric vehicles. He discovered intercalation electrodes and thoroughly described intercalation reactions in rechargeable batteries in the 1970s. He holds the patents on the concept of using intercalation chemistry in high power-density, highly reversible lithium-ion batteries.

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

Where the record meets the Jack of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about M. Stanley Whittingham, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Ability to inspire intellectual breakthroughs

He is a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

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

Also on the record

1. He also invented the first rechargeable lithium metal battery (LMB), patented in 1977 and assigned to Exxon for commercialization in small devices and electric vehicles.
2. Whittingham's rechargeable lithium metal battery is based on a LiAl anode and an intercalation-type TiS2 cathode.
3. His work on lithium batteries laid the foundation for others' developments, so he is called the founding father of lithium-ion batteries.

Other laureates with this card

• E. M. Purcell — 1952 Physics
• Ernest Rutherford — 1908 Chemistry
• Frank B. Kellogg — 1929 Peace
• Henri Moissan — 1906 Chemistry
• Jacobus H. van 't Hoff — 1901 Chemistry
• Keffer Hartline — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
• Lars Peter Hansen — 2013 Economic Sciences
• Richard Stone — 1984 Economic Sciences
• Simon van der Meer — 1984 Physics
• The Svedberg — 1926 Chemistry
• Thomas C. Südhof — 2013 Physiology or Medicine
• Tsung-Dao Lee — 1957 Physics

FAQ

What is M. Stanley Whittingham's birth card?

The 9 of Hearts. December 22 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?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.

Where do M. Stanley Whittingham's dates come from?

Birth date 1941-12-22 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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