Archibald V. Hill's Birth Card: The Jack of Hearts

In the record

Archibald Vivian Hill (26 September 1886 – 3 June 1977), better known to friends and colleagues as A. The birth-card coordinate for September 26 is the Jack of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1922 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1922 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle

The Jack of Hearts coordinate

Archibald V. Hill's birthday maps to the Jack of Hearts (The Romantic 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 Archibald V. Hill. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a fresh read on love without leaving the room when it gets ordinary.

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Archibald V. Hill in the public record

V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his elucidation of the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles. Born in Bristol, the son of Jonathan Hill (1857–1924) and Ada Priscilla (née Rumney) (1861–1943), he was preceded on the paternal side by five generations of timber merchants at Bristol, carrying on the business which had been founded by James Hill in 1750. He was educated at Blundell's School and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge as third wrangler in the mathematics tripos before turning to physiology. While still an undergraduate at Trinity College, he derived in 1909 what came to be known as the Langmuir equation. This is closely related to Michaelis–Menten kinetics. In this paper, Hill's first publication, he derived both the equilibrium form of the Langmuir equation, and also the exponential approach to equilibrium.

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

Where the record meets the 9 of Spades

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Visionary thinking and universal perspective

He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his elucidation of the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles.

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

Also on the record

1. The paper, written under the supervision of John Newport Langley, is a landmark in the history of receptor theory, because the context for the derivation was the binding of nicotine and curare to the "receptive substance" at the neuromuscular junction.
2. In 1910, Hill formulated the Hill equation, which is used to quantify binding of oxygen to haemoglobin, written here as a kinetic equation: v = V a h K 0.5 h + a h {\displaystyle v=V{\frac {a^{h}}{K_{0.5}^{h}+a^{h}}}} Here v {\displaystyle v} is the rate of reaction at concentration a {\displaystyle a} of substrate, V {\displaystyle V} is the rate at saturation, K 0.5 {\displaystyle {K_{0.5}}} is the value of a {\displaystyle a} that gives v = 0.5 V {\displaystyle v=0.5V} , and the exponent h {\displaystyle h} is a parameter that expresses the degree of departure from Michaelis–Menten kinetics: positive cooperativity for h > 1 {\displaystyle h>1} , no cooperativity for h = 1 {\displaystyle h=1} , and negative cooperativity for h < 1 {\displaystyle h<1} .
3. Note that there is no implication that h {\displaystyle h} is an integer, and in most experimental cases, apart from the trivial case of h = 1 {\displaystyle h=1} , it is not.
4. Although many authors use n {\displaystyle n} or n H {\displaystyle {n_{\mathrm {H} }}} rather than h {\displaystyle h} these symbols are misleading if taken to imply that it shows the number of binding sites on the protein.

Other laureates with this card

• Andrew Huxley — 1963 Physiology or Medicine
• André Gide — 1947 Literature
• Ferdinand Buisson — 1927 Peace
• Françoise Barré-Sinoussi — 2008 Physiology or Medicine
• George H. Whipple — 1934 Physiology or Medicine
• Godfrey N. Hounsfield — 1979 Physiology or Medicine
• Jaroslav Heyrovsky — 1959 Chemistry
• Louis Néel — 1970 Physics
• Patrick Modiano — 2014 Literature
• Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant — 1909 Peace
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes — 1991 Physics
• Robert Mundell — 1999 Economic Sciences
• 2 more laureates share this card.

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