Wendell M. Stanley's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Wendell Meredith Stanley (August 16, 1904 – June 15, 1971) was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. The birth-card coordinate for August 16 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1946 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1946 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Wendell M. Stanley'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 Wendell M. Stanley. 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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Wendell M. Stanley in the public record

Stanley's work contributed to lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry, and the chemistry of the sterols. His research on the virus causing the mosaic disease in tobacco plants led to the isolation of a nucleoprotein which displayed tobacco mosaic virus activity. Stanley was born in Ridgeville, Indiana, and earned a BSc in chemistry at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. He then studied at the University of Illinois, gaining an MS in science in 1927 followed by a PhD in chemistry two years later. His later accomplishments include writing the book "Chemistry: A Beautiful Thing" and being a Pulitzer Prize nominee. Although a member of National Research Council, he moved to Munich for temporary academic work with Heinrich Wieland before he returned to the United States in 1931. On return he was approved as an assistant at The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. He remained with the Institute until 1948, becoming an Associate Member in 1937, and a Member in 1940.

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

Where the record meets the 10 of Clubs

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Intellectual mastery and deep expertise

Stanley's work contributed to lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry, and the chemistry of the sterols.

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Also on the record

1. In 1948, he became Professor of Biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and built the Virus Laboratory and a free-standing Department of Biochemistry building, which is now called Stanley Hall.
2. In 1935, Stanley managed to produce crystals from tobacco mosaic virus particles.
3. The discovery was widely publicized, appearing for example on the front page of the New York Times of June 28, 1935, as people at the time were surprised that living-like creatures such as viruses could form crystals.
4. It was also the first time that a virus could be "seen" in some form, which was notable since viral particles were originally found and characterized as an infectious agent which was exceedingly small and able to penetrate the most narrow ceramic filters.

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• Betty Williams — 1976 Peace
• Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson — 1903 Literature
• Carl Spitteler — 1919 Literature
• Carl Wieman — 2001 Physics
• Christian Anfinsen — 1972 Chemistry
• Daniel C. Tsui — 1998 Physics
• Ernst Otto Fischer — 1973 Chemistry
• Eugenio Montale — 1975 Literature
• 28 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Wendell M. Stanley's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. August 16 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?

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