Richard L.M. Synge's Birth Card: The 7 of Hearts

In the record

Richard Laurence Millington Synge (28 October 1914 – 18 August 1994) was an English biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin. The birth-card coordinate for October 28 is the 7 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1952 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1952 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their invention of partition chromatography

The 7 of Hearts coordinate

Richard L.M. Synge's birthday maps to the 7 of Hearts (The Reflective 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 Richard L.M. Synge. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You look at love clearly without using analysis as a way not to feel it.

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Richard L.M. Synge in the public record

Richard Laurence Millington Synge was born in West Kirby on 28 October 1914, the son of Lawrence Millington Synge, a Liverpool stock-broker, and his wife, Katherine C. Swan. Synge was educated at the Old Hall in Wellington, Shropshire and at Winchester College. He then studied Chemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge. He spent his entire career in research, at the Wool Industries Research Association, Leeds (1941–1943), Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine, London (1943–1948), Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen (1948–1967), and Food Research Institute, Norwich (1967–1976). It was during his time in Leeds that he worked with Archer Martin, developing partition chromatography, a technique used in the separation mixtures of similar chemicals, that revolutionised analytical chemistry. Between 1942 and 1948 he studied peptides of the protein group gramicidin, work later used by Frederick Sanger in determining the structure of insulin. In March 1950 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for which his candidature citation read: Distinguished as a biochemist.

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Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs

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It was during his time in Leeds that he worked with Archer Martin, developing partition chromatography, a technique used in the separation mixtures of similar chemicals, that revolutionised analytical chemistry.

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Also on the record

1. Was the first to show the possibility of using counter-current liquid-liquid extraction in the separation of N-acetylamino acids.
2. In collaboration with A.J.P.
3. Martin this led to the development of partition chromatography, which they have applied with conspicuous success in problems related to the composition and structure of proteins, particularly wool keratin.
4. Synge's recent work on the composition and structure of gramicidins is outstanding and illustrates vividly the great advances in technique for which he and Martin are responsible.

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• Elie Wiesel — 1986 Peace
• Elizabeth H. Blackburn — 2009 Physiology or Medicine
• Jean Baptiste Perrin — 1926 Physics
• Jean-Marie Lehn — 1987 Chemistry
• Johann Deisenhofer — 1988 Chemistry
• Karl Ziegler — 1963 Chemistry
• Sir Nevill F. Mott — 1977 Physics

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