Ronald G.W. Norrish's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs

In the record

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish FRS (9 November 1897 – 7 June 1978) was a British chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. The birth-card coordinate for November 9 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1967 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1967 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy

The Jack of Clubs coordinate

Ronald G.W. Norrish's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative Messenger). 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 Ronald G.W. Norrish. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.

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Ronald G.W. Norrish in the public record

Norrish was born in Cambridge and was educated at The Perse School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was a former student of Eric Rideal. From an early age he was interested in chemistry, walking up and down Cambridge University chemical laboratory admiring all the equipment. His father encouraged him to construct and equip a small laboratory in his garden shed in his garden and supplied all the chemicals he needed to conduct experiments. This apparatus now forms part of the Science Museum collections - reference shows copper water tank. He used to enter competitions for the analysis of mixtures sent round by the Pharmaceutical Journal and often won prizes. In 1915 Norrish won a Foundation Scholarship to Emmanuel College, but by adding a little to his age joined the Royal Field Artillery and served as a Lieutenant, first in Ireland and then on the Western Front. Norrish was a prisoner in World War I and later commented, with sadness, that many of his contemporaries and potential competitors at Cambridge had not survived the War.

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

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Ability to inspire intellectual breakthroughs

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish FRS (9 November 1897 – 7 June 1978) was a British chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.

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

Also on the record

1. Military records show that 2nd Lieutenant Norrish of the Royal Artillery went missing (captured) on 21 March 1918.
2. Norrish rejoined Emmanuel College as a Research Fellow in 1925 and later became Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
3. The skill which Norrish displayed in his laboratory work problems marked him out amongst his contemporaries as an unusually gifted and energetic experimentalist, capable of making significant advances in photo-chemistry and gas kinetics.
4. Norrish was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1936.

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FAQ

What is Ronald G.W. Norrish's birth card?

The Jack of Clubs. November 9 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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