Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Nikolaas Tinbergen's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds
The Generous Provider
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen ( TIN-bur-gən, Dutch: [ˈnikoː(laːs) ˈtɪmbɛrɣə(n)]; 15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals. The birth-card coordinate for April 15 is the 6 of Diamonds — 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
1973 — The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
“for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns”
Shared with Karl von Frisch (K♥), Konrad Lorenz (K♣). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/3.
226 other Physiology or Medicine laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The 6 of Diamonds coordinate
Nikolaas Tinbergen'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 Nikolaas Tinbergen. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.
Nikolaas Tinbergen in the public record
He is regarded as one of the founders of ethology, the study of animal behaviour, and an important figure in the development of that discipline into its contemporary form, behavioral ecology. In 1951, he published The Study of Instinct, an influential book on animal behaviour. In the 1960s, he collaborated with filmmaker Hugh Falkus on a series of wildlife films, including The Riddle of the Rook (1972) and Signals for Survival (1969), which won the Italia prize in that year and the American blue ribbon in 1971.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Nikolaas Tinbergen (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 3 of Spades
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 Nikolaas Tinbergen, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Nikolaas Tinbergen's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 6♦ — Birth Card: The Generous Provider
- 3♠ — Karma — Environment: The Sorrowful Truth
- 9♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Humanitarian Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- A♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Ability to see what needs fixing
Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen ( TIN-bur-gən, Dutch: [ˈnikoː(laːs) ˈtɪmbɛrɣə(n)]; 15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: medicine.
Other laureates with this card
- Ben R. Mottelson — 1975 Physics
- Carl von Ossietzky — 1935 Peace
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas — 1936 Peace
- Carol W. Greider — 2009 Physiology or Medicine
- 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.
FAQ
- What is Nikolaas Tinbergen's birth card?
- The 6 of Diamonds. April 15 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 Nikolaas Tinbergen's dates come from?
- Birth date 1907-04-15 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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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 402) + Wikidata CC0 (Q153890) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Nikolaas Tinbergen). Birth date 1907-04-15 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).