Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Paul C. Lauterbur's Birth Card: The King of Diamonds
The Wealthy King
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
Paul Christian Lauterbur (May 6, 1929 – March 27, 2007) was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible. The birth-card coordinate for May 6 is the King of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2003 Physiology or Medicine prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 2003 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging
2003 — The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
“for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging”
Shared with Sir Peter Mansfield (K♣). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/2.
226 other Physiology or Medicine laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The King of Diamonds coordinate
Paul C. Lauterbur's birthday maps to the King of Diamonds (The Wealthy King). 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 Paul C. Lauterbur. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the system and you can show your work.
Paul C. Lauterbur in the public record
Lauterbur was a professor at Stony Brook University from 1963 until 1985, where he conducted his research for the development of the MRI. In 1985 he became a professor along with his wife Joan Dawson at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 22 years until his death in Urbana. He and Dawson established the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory (BMRL) there. He never stopped working with undergraduates on research, and he served as a professor of chemistry, with appointments in bioengineering, biophysics, the College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign and computational biology at the Center for Advanced Study.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Paul Lauterbur (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 3 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 Paul C. Lauterbur, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Paul C. Lauterbur's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♦ — Birth Card: The Wealthy King
- 7♠ — Karma — Environment: The Questioning Mind
- 3♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Communicator
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♦ — 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 articulate complex ideas clearly
Lauterbur was a professor at Stony Brook University from 1963 until 1985, where he conducted his research for the development of the MRI.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: professor, research.
Other laureates with this card
- Albert Schweitzer — 1952 Peace
- George P. Smith — 2018 Chemistry
- Hans Bethe — 1967 Physics
- Harry Martinson — 1974 Literature
- Heinrich Wieland — 1927 Chemistry
- Hermann Hesse — 1946 Literature
- John R. Hicks — 1972 Economic Sciences
- Julian Schwinger — 1965 Physics
- Kofi Annan — 2001 Peace
- Melvin Calvin — 1961 Chemistry
- Nadia Murad — 2018 Peace
- Ralph M. Steinman — 2011 Physiology or Medicine
- 7 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Paul C. Lauterbur's birth card?
- The King of Diamonds. May 6 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 Paul C. Lauterbur's dates come from?
- Birth date 1929-05-06 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 764) + Wikidata CC0 (Q106547) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Paul Lauterbur). Birth date 1929-05-06 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).