Susumu Kitagawa's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

In the record

Susumu Kitagawa (北川 進, Kitagawa Susumu; born 4 July 1951) is a Japanese Nobel Prize-winning chemist specializing in coordination chemistry, with a focus on organic–inorganic hybrid compounds and the chemical and physical properties of porous coordination polymers, particularly metal-organic frameworks. The birth-card coordinate for July 4 is the Jack 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 Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Susumu Kitagawa's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful 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 Susumu Kitagawa. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

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Susumu Kitagawa in the public record

He is Distinguished Professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), which he co-founded. In 2025, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi. Kitagawa was born on 4 July 1951 in Kyoto. He earned his PhD in hydrocarbon chemistry from Kyoto University in 1979, having completed his undergraduate studies at the same institution. That year, he was appointed assistant professor at Kindai University, where he was promoted to lecturer in 1983 and associate professor in 1988. In 1992, he became professor of inorganic chemistry at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He returned to Kyoto University in 1998 as a professor of inorganic functional chemistry in the Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry.

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

Where the record meets the Jack of Diamonds

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Ability to inspire financial awakening

He is Distinguished Professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), which he co-founded.

Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: founded.

Also on the record

1. In 2007, he co-founded the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), serving as founding deputy director, then as director from 2013 to 2023.
2. In 2024, he was appointed Executive Vice-President for Research Promotion at Kyoto University.
3. His overseas academic postings include a postdoctoral fellowship at Texas A&M University with F.
4. Albert Cotton (1986–1987) and a guest professorship at the City University of New York (1996).

Other laureates with this card

• André Lwoff — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Bernardo Houssay — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• C.T.R. Wilson — 1927 Physics
• Edwin G. Krebs — 1992 Physiology or Medicine
• Eugene F. Fama — 2013 Economic Sciences
• Ferdinand Braun — 1909 Physics
• Friedrich von Hayek — 1974 Economic Sciences
• Gerard Debreu — 1983 Economic Sciences
• H. Robert Horvitz — 2002 Physiology or Medicine
• Heinrich Rohrer — 1986 Physics
• Henry Dunant — 1901 Peace
• Herbert A. Hauptman — 1985 Chemistry
• 8 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Susumu Kitagawa's birth card?

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

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.

Where do Susumu Kitagawa's dates come from?

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