Walter Hess's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds

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Walter Rudolf Hess (17 March 1881 – 12 August 1973) was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs. The birth-card coordinate for March 17 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1949 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1949 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs

The 6 of Diamonds coordinate

Walter Hess's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). 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 Walter Hess. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.

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Walter Hess in the public record

He shared the prize with Egas Moniz. Hess was born in Frauenfeld as the second of three children to Clemens Hess and Gertrud Hess (née Fischer). His father encouraged him to pursue a scientific career and with him he conducted experiments in his physics laboratory. He started to study medicine in Lausanne in 1899 and then in Berlin, Kiel and Zürich. He received his medical degree from the University of Zurich in 1906 and trained as surgeon in Münsterlingen (in the same canton as his birthplace Frauenfeld) under Conrad Brunner (1859–1927). He developed a viscosimeter to measure blood viscosity and published his dissertation in 1906 titled Zum Thema Viskosität des Blutes und Herzarbeit. In 1907, he went to the University of Zurich to study under Otto Haab to be trained as an ophthalmologist and opened his own private practice in Rapperswil SG. In these years, he developed the "Hess screen", married Louise Sandmeier and in 1910 their daughter Gertrud Hess was born.

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

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Walter Rudolf Hess (17 March 1881 – 12 August 1973) was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs.

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Also on the record

1. In 1913 his son Rudolf Max Hess was born.
2. In 1912, he left his lucrative private practice as an ophthalmologist and went into research under Justus Gaule (1849–1939), habilitating in 1913 to become Privatdozent.
3. His primary interests were the regulation of blood flow and respiration.
4. During the First World War he spent a year at the Physiological Institute of the University of Bonn under Max Verworn.

Other laureates with this card

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• Carl von Ossietzky — 1935 Peace
• Carlos Saavedra Lamas — 1936 Peace
• Carol W. Greider — 2009 Physiology or Medicine
• Charles J. Pedersen — 1987 Chemistry
• David J. Gross — 2004 Physics
• Elinor Ostrom — 2009 Economic Sciences
• J. Robin Warren — 2005 Physiology or Medicine
• James M. Buchanan Jr. — 1986 Economic Sciences
• James P. Allison — 2018 Physiology or Medicine
• Jennifer A. Doudna — 2020 Chemistry
• Johannes Stark — 1919 Physics
• 15 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Walter Hess's birth card?

The 6 of Diamonds. March 17 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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