Sir Robert Robinson's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs

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Sir Robert Robinson (13 September 1886 – 8 February 1975) was a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids. The birth-card coordinate for September 13 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1947 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1947 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids

The Jack of Clubs coordinate

Sir Robert Robinson'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 Sir Robert Robinson. 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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Sir Robert Robinson in the public record

In 1947, he also received the Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm. He was born at Rufford House Farm, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire the son of James Bradbury Robinson, a maker of surgical dressings, and his wife, Jane Davenport. Robinson went to school at the Chesterfield Grammar School and the private Fulneck School. He then studied chemistry at the University of Manchester, graduating BSc in 1905. In 1907 he was awarded an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to continue his research at the University of Manchester. He was appointed as the first Professor of Pure and Applied Organic Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney in 1912. He then took up the Chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of Liverpool (1915–20) and following this became the Director of Research at the British Dyestuffs Corporation. He was briefly at St Andrews University (1921–22) and then took the Chair of Organic Chemistry at Manchester University, previously held by Arthur Lapworth and William Henry Perkin Jr..

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Sir Robert Robinson (13 September 1886 – 8 February 1975) was a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids.

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Also on the record

1. Like Lapworth and Perkin, Robinson presented a paper (The Conjugation of Partial Valencies) to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.
2. In 1928 he moved from there to be a professor at University College London where he stayed only two years.
3. He was the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University from 1930 and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
4. Robinson was elected an International Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1934, an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1944, and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1948.

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FAQ

What is Sir Robert Robinson's birth card?

The Jack of Clubs. September 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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