Paul D. Boyer's Birth Card: The 10 of Hearts

In the record

Paul Delos Boyer (July 31, 1918 – June 2, 2018) was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The birth-card coordinate for July 31 is the 10 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1997 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1997 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

The 10 of Hearts coordinate

Paul D. Boyer's birthday maps to the 10 of Hearts (The Community Heart). 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 D. Boyer. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room.

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Paul D. Boyer in the public record

He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" (ATP synthase) with John E. Walker, making Boyer the first Utah-born Nobel laureate; the remainder of the Prize in that year was awarded to Danish chemist Jens Christian Skou for his discovery of the Na+/K+-ATPase. Boyer was born in Provo, Utah, and grew up in a nonpracticing Mormon family of Dutch, German, French, and English descent. He attended Provo High School, where he was active in student government and the debating team. He was also his high schools valedictorian and played intramural basketball in high school and college. He received a B.S. in chemistry from Brigham Young University in 1939 and obtained a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Scholarship for graduate studies. Five days before leaving for Wisconsin, Paul married Lyda Whicker in 1939, and they remained married for nearly eighty years until his death in 2018, making him the longest-married Nobel laureate. The Boyers had three children.

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

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Paul Delos Boyer (July 31, 1918 – June 2, 2018) was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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

Also on the record

1. Though the Boyers connected with the Mormon community in Wisconsin, they considered themselves "on the wayward fringe" and doubted the doctrinal beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
2. After experimenting with Unitarianism, Boyer eventually became an atheist.
3. In 2003 he was one of 22 Nobel laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.
4. After Boyer received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1943, he spent years at Stanford University on a war-related research project dedicated to stabilization of serum albumin for transfusions.

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• Heinrich Böll — 1972 Literature
• Hermann J. Muller — 1946 Physiology or Medicine
• Hjalmar Branting — 1921 Peace
• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — 1910 Physics
• Klaus Hasselmann — 2021 Physics
• Martin Ryle — 1974 Physics
• Maurice Maeterlinck — 1911 Literature
• Milton Friedman — 1976 Economic Sciences
• 5 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Paul D. Boyer's birth card?

The 10 of Hearts. July 31 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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