Albert Claude's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

In the record

Albert Claude (24 August 1899 – 22 May 1983) was a Belgian-American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade. The birth-card coordinate for August 24 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1974 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1974 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell

The 2 of Clubs coordinate

Albert Claude's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative 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 Albert Claude. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.

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Albert Claude in the public record

His elementary education started in a comprehensive primary school at Longlier, his birthplace. He served in the British Intelligence Service during the First World War, and got imprisoned in concentration camps twice. In recognition of his service, he was granted enrolment at the University of Liège in Belgium to study medicine without any formal education required for the course. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1928. Devoted to medical research, he initially joined German institutes in Berlin. In 1929 he found an opportunity to join the Rockefeller Institute in New York. At Rockefeller University he made his most groundbreaking achievements in cell biology. In 1930 he developed the technique of cell fractionation, by which he discovered the agent of the Rous sarcoma, as well as components of cell organelles such as the mitochondrion, chloroplast, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, ribosome, and lysosome.

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Where the record meets the Ace of Spades

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Albert Claude (24 August 1899 – 22 May 1983) was a Belgian-American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade.

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

Also on the record

1. He was the first to employ the electron microscope in the field of biology.
2. In 1945 he published the first detailed structure of cell.
3. His collective works established the complex functional and structural properties of cells.
4. Claude served as director at Jules Bordet Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment and Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire et Cancérologie in Louvain-la-Neuve; Professor at the Free University of Brussels, the University of Louvain, and Rockefeller University.

Other laureates with this card

• Adam G. Riess — 2011 Physics
• Alexis Carrel — 1912 Physiology or Medicine
• Auguste Beernaert — 1909 Peace
• Brian Kobilka — 2012 Chemistry
• Charles B. Huggins — 1966 Physiology or Medicine
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• Edmund S. Phelps — 2006 Economic Sciences
• Elfriede Jelinek — 2004 Literature
• F. Sherwood Rowland — 1995 Chemistry
• George Bernard Shaw — 1925 Literature
• George Wald — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
• Hannes Alfvén — 1970 Physics
• 11 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Albert Claude's birth card?

The 2 of Clubs. August 24 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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Where do Albert Claude's dates come from?

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