André Lwoff's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

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André Michel Lwoff (8 May 1902 – 30 September 1994) was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate. The birth-card coordinate for May 8 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1965 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1965 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

André Lwoff'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 André Lwoff. 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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André Lwoff in the public record

Lwoff was born in Ainay-le-Château, Allier, in Auvergne, France, into a Jewish family of Russian-Polish origin, the son of Marie (Siminovitch), an artist, and Solomon Lwoff, a psychiatrist. He joined the Institute Pasteur in Paris when he was 19 years old. In 1932, he finished his PhD and, with the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, moved with his wife and co-researcher Marguerite Lwoff to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research of Heidelberg to Otto Meyerhof, where he did research on the development of flagellates. Another Rockefeller grant allowed him go to the University of Cambridge in 1937. In 1938, he was appointed departmental head at the Institut Pasteur, where he did groundbreaking research on bacteriophages, microbiota and on the poliovirus. He was awarded numerous prizes from the French Académie des Sciences, the Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer, the Leeuwenhoek Medal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1960 and the Keilin Medal of the British Biochemical Society in 1964. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 for the discovery of the mechanism that some viruses (which he named proviruses) use to infect bacteria. He was an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

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

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Ability to inspire intellectual breakthroughs

In 1932, he finished his PhD and, with the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, moved with his wife and co-researcher Marguerite Lwoff to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research of Heidelberg to Otto Meyerhof, where he did research on the development of flagellates.

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Also on the record

1. Throughout his career he partnered with his wife Marguerite Lwoff although he gained considerably more recognition.
2. Lwoff was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1958.
3. Lwoff was also president of the FEMS for a term of two years from 1974.
4. The FEMS-Lwoff Award in microbiology is named in his honour.

Other laureates with this card

• 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
• Jules A. Hoffmann — 2011 Physiology or Medicine
• 8 more laureates share this card.

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What is André Lwoff's birth card?

The Jack of Diamonds. May 8 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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