Morten Meldal's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

In the record

Morten Peter Meldal (born 16 January 1954) is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate. The birth-card coordinate for January 16 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2022 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2022 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Morten Meldal's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). 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 Morten Meldal. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

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Morten Meldal in the public record

He is a professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is best known for developing the CuAAC-click reaction, concurrently with but independent of Valery V. Fokin and K. Barry Sharpless. Meldal received B.S. and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from Technical University of Denmark (DTU); his PhD work was supervised by Klaus Bock and focused on the synthetic chemistry of carbohydrates. From 1983 to 1988 he was a postdoctoral fellow in organic chemistry, first at the DTU, next at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University and then at the University of Copenhagen. In 1996 he was appointed assistant professor at DTU. Since 1998 he has led the synthesis group in the Department of Chemistry of the Carlsberg Laboratory.

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

Where the record meets the Jack of Clubs

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Ability to inspire intellectual breakthroughs

He is a professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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

Also on the record

1. Meldal developed several technological techniques and instruments for peptide synthesis near the start of his career.
2. He developed the multiple-column synthesis used in peptide and organic synthesis instruments, as well as for assembling large split-mix libraries.
3. He first presented the cycloaddition of acetylenes and azides used in peptide and protein conjugations, in polymers and in material sciences.
4. Meldal's group has then showed this reaction to be orthogonal to the majority of functional group chemistries.

Other laureates with this card

• André Lwoff — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Bernardo Houssay — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• C.T.R. Wilson — 1927 Physics
• Edwin G. Krebs — 1992 Physiology or Medicine
• Eugene F. Fama — 2013 Economic Sciences
• Ferdinand Braun — 1909 Physics
• Friedrich von Hayek — 1974 Economic Sciences
• Gerard Debreu — 1983 Economic Sciences
• H. Robert Horvitz — 2002 Physiology or Medicine
• Heinrich Rohrer — 1986 Physics
• Henry Dunant — 1901 Peace
• Herbert A. Hauptman — 1985 Chemistry
• 8 more laureates share this card.

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What is Morten Meldal's birth card?

The Jack of Diamonds. January 16 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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