Robert F. Curl Jr.'s Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

In the record

Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University. The birth-card coordinate for August 23 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1996 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1996 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their discovery of fullerenes

The 3 of Clubs coordinate

Robert F. Curl Jr.'s birthday maps to the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). 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 Robert F. Curl Jr.. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move an idea across more than one channel without abandoning the one that needs depth.

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Robert F. Curl Jr. in the public record

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene, and hence the fullerene class of materials, along with Richard Smalley (also of Rice University) and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex. Born in Alice, Texas, United States, Curl was the son of a Methodist minister. Due to his father's missionary work, his family moved several times within southern and southwestern Texas, and the elder Curl was involved in starting the San Antonio Medical Center's Methodist Hospital. Curl attributes his interest in chemistry to a chemistry set he received as a nine-year-old, recalling that he ruined the finish on his mother's porcelain stove when nitric acid boiled over onto it. He is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas. His high school offered only one year of chemistry instruction, but in his senior year his chemistry teacher gave him special projects to work on. Curl received a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from Rice Institute (now Rice University) in 1954. He was attracted to the reputation of both the school's academics and football team, and the fact that at the time it charged no tuition.

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

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Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University.

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

Also on the record

1. He earned his doctorate in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1957.
2. At Berkeley, he worked in the laboratory of Kenneth Pitzer, then dean of the college of chemistry, with whom he would become a lifelong collaborator.
3. Curl's graduate research involved performing infrared spectroscopy to determine the bond angle of disiloxane.
4. Curl was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University with E.

Other laureates with this card

• Angus Deaton — 2015 Economic Sciences
• Charles Nicolle — 1928 Physiology or Medicine
• David J. Thouless — 2016 Physics
• Donald A. Glaser — 1960 Physics
• Elias Canetti — 1981 Literature
• Eugene Wigner — 1963 Physics
• Frances H. Arnold — 2018 Chemistry
• Hamilton O. Smith — 1978 Physiology or Medicine
• Hans Spemann — 1935 Physiology or Medicine
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — 1913 Physics
• Henri Becquerel — 1903 Physics
• Jean Dausset — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
• 14 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Robert F. Curl Jr.'s birth card?

The 3 of Clubs. August 23 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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