Arvid Carlsson's Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds

In the record

Arvid Carlsson (25 January 1923 – 29 June 2018) was a Swedish neuropharmacologist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson's disease. The birth-card coordinate for January 25 is the 2 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2000 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2000 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system

The 2 of Diamonds coordinate

Arvid Carlsson's birthday maps to the 2 of Diamonds (The Financial Partner). 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 Arvid Carlsson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides.

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Arvid Carlsson in the public record

For his work on dopamine, Carlsson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000, together with Eric Kandel and Paul Greengard. Carlsson was born on 25 January 1923 in Uppsala, Sweden, one of four siblings. His family moved to Lund after his father became a history professor at Lund University. Although his two older siblings followed their father's career path, he instead chose to study medicine at Lund, beginning in 1941. In 1944, he participated in the task of examining prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, whom Swedish aristocrat Folke Bernadotte had managed to bring to Sweden, which was neutral during World War II. He received his MD and PhD in pharmacology in 1951. In 1951, Carlsson became an associate professor at Lund University. He spent five months as a research fellow for the pharmacologist Bernard Beryl Brodie at the National Heart Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, United States, and the change in his research focus to psychopharmacology eventually led to his Nobel Prize.

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

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Natural teaching and mentoring ability

His family moved to Lund after his father became a history professor at Lund University.

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Also on the record

1. In 1959 he became a professor at the University of Gothenburg.
2. In 1957 Katharine Montagu demonstrated the presence of dopamine in the human brain; later that same year Carlsson also demonstrated that dopamine was a neurotransmitter in the brain and not just a precursor for norepinephrine.
3. Carlsson went on to develop a method for measuring the amount of dopamine in brain tissues.
4. He found that dopamine levels in the basal ganglia, a brain area important for movement, were particularly high.

Other laureates with this card

• Aaron Klug — 1982 Chemistry
• Alain Aspect — 2022 Physics
• Allan M. Cormack — 1979 Physiology or Medicine
• Christiaan Eijkman — 1929 Physiology or Medicine
• D. Carleton Gajdusek — 1976 Physiology or Medicine
• Desmond Tutu — 1984 Peace
• Didier Queloz — 2019 Physics
• Douglass C. North — 1993 Economic Sciences
• Ferenc Krausz — 2023 Physics
• Glenn T. Seaborg — 1951 Chemistry
• Hans G. Dehmelt — 1989 Physics
• Herbert Simon — 1978 Economic Sciences
• 16 more laureates share this card.

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What is Arvid Carlsson's birth card?

The 2 of Diamonds. January 25 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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