Richard Robson's Birth Card: The King of Diamonds

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Richard Robson (born 4 June 1937) is an English and Australian chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne. The birth-card coordinate for June 4 is the King of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2025 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2025 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the development of metal–organic frameworks

The King of Diamonds coordinate

Richard Robson'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 Richard Robson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the system and you can show your work.

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Richard Robson in the public record

Robson specialises in coordination polymers, particularly metal-organic frameworks. He has been described as "a pioneer in crystal engineering involving transition metals". In 2025, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Susumu Kitagawa and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of metal-organic frameworks. Robson was born in Glusburn, West Yorkshire (now North Yorkshire), England, on 4 June 1937. He read chemistry at Brasenose College, Oxford, earning a BA in 1959 and a DPhil in 1962. His doctoral research, supervised by John A. Barltrop at the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, focused on the photochemistry of organic molecules.

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Richard Robson (born 4 June 1937) is an English and Australian chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne.

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Also on the record

1. Robson conducted postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology (1962–64) and Stanford University (1964–65) under Henry Taube before accepting a lectureship in chemistry at the University of Melbourne in 1966, where he remained for the rest of his career.
2. Richard Robson's groundbreaking research established foundational principles in the field of coordination polymers, particularly for infinite polymeric frameworks—later termed metal–organic frameworks (MOFs).
3. His interest in the field was sparked in 1974 while constructing large wooden models of crystalline structures for first-year chemistry lectures.
4. In the 1990s, Robson created a new class of coordination polymers that underpinned an entire modern field of chemistry.

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What is Richard Robson's birth card?

The King of Diamonds. June 4 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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