Otto Meyerhof's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds

In the record

Otto Fritz Meyerhof (12 April 1884 – 6 October 1951) was a German physician and biochemist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The birth-card coordinate for April 12 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1922 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1922 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle

The 9 of Diamonds coordinate

Otto Meyerhof's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal 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 Otto Meyerhof. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.

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Otto Meyerhof in the public record

Otto Fritz Meyerhof was born in Hannover, at Theaterplatz 16A (now:Rathenaustrasse 16A), the son of wealthy Jewish parents. In 1888, his family moved to Berlin, where Otto spent most of his childhood, and where he started his study of medicine. He continued these studies in Strasbourg and Heidelberg, from which he graduated in 1909, with a work titled "Contributions to the Psychological Theory of Mental Illness". In Heidelberg, he met Hedwig Schallenberg. They married in 1914 and had three children together: a daughter, Bettina, and two sons, Gottfried (who after emigration used the anglicized name Geoffrey) and Walter. In 1912, Otto Meyerhof moved to the University of Kiel, where he received a professorship in 1918. In 1922, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine, with Archibald Vivian Hill, for his work on muscle metabolism, including glycolysis. In 1929, he became one of the directors of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, a position he held until 1938, when Jews were expelled from university teaching positions.

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

Where the record meets the 8 of Spades

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Strategic and powerful thinking

Otto Fritz Meyerhof (12 April 1884 – 6 October 1951) was a German physician and biochemist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: medicine, physician.

Also on the record

1. To escape the increasing oppression of Jews by the Nazi regime, in 1938 Meyerhof emigrated with his family to Paris.
2. After the fall of France in 1940, they fled to Marseille.
3. Aided by the Emergency Rescue Committee, they left the country by ship to the United States that year.
4. Meyerhof was appointed to a guest professorship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

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• Barack H. Obama — 2009 Peace
• Eric F. Wieschaus — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• Francis Crick — 1962 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick Soddy — 1921 Chemistry
• George E. Smith — 2009 Physics
• Giorgio Parisi — 2021 Physics
• Gustav Stresemann — 1926 Peace
• Hugo Theorell — 1955 Physiology or Medicine
• Jacques Dubochet — 2017 Chemistry
• Jan Tinbergen — 1969 Economic Sciences
• 9 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Otto Meyerhof's birth card?

The 9 of Diamonds. April 12 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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Where do Otto Meyerhof's dates come from?

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