Sir Frederick Hopkins's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (20 June 1861 – 16 May 1947) was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins. The birth-card coordinate for June 20 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1929 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1929 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Sir Frederick Hopkins's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master Builder). 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 Sir Frederick Hopkins. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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Sir Frederick Hopkins in the public record

He also discovered the amino acid tryptophan, in 1901. He was President of the Royal Society from 1930 to 1935. Hopkins was born in Eastbourne, Sussex, and initially attended the City of London School. However, he soon transferred to Alexandra Park College in Hornsey and completed his further study with the University of London External Programme (through evening classes at Birkbeck College). He attended the medical school of Guy's Hospital, which is now part of King's College London School of Medicine. After graduating, Hopkins then taught physiology and toxicology at Guy's Hospital from 1894 to 1898. In 1898, while attending a meeting of the Physiological Society, he was invited by Sir Michael Foster to join the Physiological Laboratory in Cambridge to investigate the chemical aspects of physiology. Biochemistry was not, at that time, recognised as a separate branch of science.

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

Where the record meets the 4 of Spades

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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (20 June 1861 – 16 May 1947) was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: medicine.

Also on the record

1. He was a lecturer in chemical physiology at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in March 1900, when he received the academic rank Master of Arts (MA) honoris causa.
2. He earned a doctorate in physiology (D.Sc.) from the University of London in July 1902, and at the same time was given a readership in biochemistry at Trinity College.
3. While at Cambridge he was initiated into Freemasonry.
4. In 1910 he became a Fellow of Trinity College, and an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College.

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What is Sir Frederick Hopkins's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. June 20 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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