Richard Kuhn's Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds

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Richard Johann Kuhn (3 December 1900 – 31 July 1967) was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins". The birth-card coordinate for December 3 is the 2 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1938 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1938 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his work on carotenoids and vitamins

The 2 of Diamonds coordinate

Richard Kuhn's birthday maps to the 2 of Diamonds (The Financial Partner). 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 Richard Kuhn. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides.

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Richard Kuhn in the public record

Kuhn was born in Vienna, Austria, where he attended grammar school and high school. His interest in chemistry surfaced early; however he had many interests and decided late to study chemistry. Between 1910 and 1918 he was a schoolmate of Wolfgang Pauli, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1945. Beginning in 1918, Kuhn attended lectures at the University of Vienna in chemistry. He finished his chemistry studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) and received his doctoral degree in 1922 with Richard Willstätter for a scientific work on enzymes. After graduating, Kuhn continued his scientific career, first in Munich, then at the ETH Zurich and from 1929 onwards at the University of Heidelberg, where he was head of the chemistry department beginning in 1937. In 1928 he married Daisy Hartmann and the couple subsequently had two sons and four daughters. Kuhn's areas of study included: investigations of theoretical problems of organic chemistry (stereochemistry of aliphatic and aromatic compounds; syntheses of polyenes and cumulenes; constitution and colour; the acidity of hydrocarbons), as well as extensive fields in biochemistry (carotenoids; flavins; vitamins and enzymes).

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

Where the record meets the 6 of Clubs

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Richard Johann Kuhn (3 December 1900 – 31 July 1967) was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins".

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Also on the record

1. Specifically, he carried out important work on vitamin B2 and the antidermatitis vitamin B6.
2. In 1929 he became Principal of the Institute for Chemistry at the newly founded Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research (which, since 1950, has been renamed the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg).
3. By 1937 he also took over the administration of this Institute.
4. In addition to these duties he also served as of Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Heidelberg, and for one year he was at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, as a Visiting Research Professor for Physiological Chemistry.

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What is Richard Kuhn's birth card?

The 2 of Diamonds. December 3 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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