Alfred G. Gilman's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades

In the record

Alfred Goodman Gilman (July 1, 1941 – December 23, 2015) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist. The birth-card coordinate for July 1 is the Ace of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1994 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1994 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells

The Ace of Spades coordinate

Alfred G. Gilman's birthday maps to the Ace of Spades (The Truth Pioneer). 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 Alfred G. Gilman. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard.

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Alfred G. Gilman in the public record

He and Martin Rodbell shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells." Gilman was the son of Alfred Gilman, who co-authored Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics with Louis S. Goodman, from whom his middle name came. He earned a BA in biology with major in biochemistry from Yale University. Immediately after graduation in 1962, he worked with Allan Conney at Burroughs Wellcome & Company, which resulted in the publication of his first two technical papers. Persuaded by Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., he joined Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine for an MD–PhD course. He obtained his degree in 1969. He then went to the National Institutes of Health to work with Marshall Nirenberg between 1969 and 1971. Gilman became assistant professor of pharmacology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1971, and full professor in 1977.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Spades

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Ability to penetrate illusions and see truth

He and Martin Rodbell shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells." Gilman was the son of Alfred Gilman, who co-authored Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics with Louis S.

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

Also on the record

1. He chaired the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas from 1981.
2. Upon his retirement in 2009, he was appointed chief scientific officer of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
3. He resigned in 2012.
4. He was the founder of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals company and the Alliance for Cellular Signaling.

Other laureates with this card

• Arthur L. Schawlow — 1981 Physics
• Eric Betzig — 2014 Chemistry
• Gabriela Mistral — 1945 Literature
• Georg von Békésy — 1961 Physiology or Medicine
• Gerald M. Edelman — 1972 Physiology or Medicine
• Henryk Sienkiewicz — 1905 Literature
• Léon Jouhaux — 1951 Peace
• Makoto Kobayashi — 2008 Physics
• Myron Scholes — 1997 Economic Sciences
• Otto Loewi — 1936 Physiology or Medicine
• Sydney Brenner — 2002 Physiology or Medicine
• Takaaki Kajita — 2015 Physics
• 4 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Alfred G. Gilman's birth card?

The Ace of Spades. July 1 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 Alfred G. Gilman's dates come from?

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