Philip S. Hench's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Philip Showalter Hench (February 28, 1896 – March 30, 1965) was an American physician. The birth-card coordinate for February 28 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1950 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1950 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Philip S. Hench's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master Builder). 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 Philip S. Hench. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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Philip S. Hench in the public record

Hench, along with his Mayo Clinic co-worker Edward Calvin Kendall and Swiss chemist Tadeus Reichstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for the discovery of the hormone cortisone, and its application for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The Nobel Committee bestowed the award for the trio's "discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects." Hench received his undergraduate education at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and received his medical training at the United States Army Medical Corps and the University of Pittsburgh. He began working at Mayo Clinic in 1923, later serving as the head of the Department of Rheumatology. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Hench received many other awards and honors throughout his career. He also had a lifelong interest in the history and discovery of yellow fever.

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

Where the record meets the 4 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 Philip S. Hench, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

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The Nobel Committee bestowed the award for the trio's "discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects." Hench received his undergraduate education at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and received his medical training at the United States Army Medical Corps and the University of Pittsburgh.

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

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FAQ

What is Philip S. Hench's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. February 28 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 Philip S. Hench's dates come from?

Birth date 1896-02-28 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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