Barry J. Marshall's Birth Card: The 7 of Hearts

In the record

Barry James Marshall (born 30 September 1951) is an Australian physician, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia. The birth-card coordinate for September 30 is the 7 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2005 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2005 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discovery of the bacterium <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease

The 7 of Hearts coordinate

Barry J. Marshall's birthday maps to the 7 of Hearts (The Reflective Heart). 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 Barry J. Marshall. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You look at love clearly without using analysis as a way not to feel it.

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Barry J. Marshall in the public record

Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused primarily by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid. This discovery has allowed for a breakthrough in understanding a causative link between Helicobacter pylori infection and stomach cancer. He is a prominent example, in the tradition of John Scott Haldane, JBS Haldane and, much later, Jonas Salk, of testing a medical hypothesis by self-administration. Marshall was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and lived in Kalgoorlie and Carnarvon until moving to Perth at the age of eight. His father held various jobs, and his mother was a nurse. He is the eldest of four siblings. He attended Marist College, Churchlands for his secondary education and the University of Western Australia School of Medicine, where he received a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 1974. He married his wife Adrienne in 1972 and has four children, a son and three daughters.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Barry Marshall (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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Barry James Marshall (born 30 September 1951) is an Australian physician, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia.

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

Also on the record

1. In 1979, Marshall was appointed Registrar in Medicine at the Royal Perth Hospital.
2. He met Dr.
3. Robin Warren, a pathologist interested in gastritis, during internal medicine fellowship training at Royal Perth Hospital in 1981.
4. Together, they both studied the presence of spiral bacteria in association with gastritis.

Other laureates with this card

• Adolfo Pérez Esquivel — 1980 Peace
• Elie Wiesel — 1986 Peace
• Elizabeth H. Blackburn — 2009 Physiology or Medicine
• Jean Baptiste Perrin — 1926 Physics
• Jean-Marie Lehn — 1987 Chemistry
• Johann Deisenhofer — 1988 Chemistry
• Karl Ziegler — 1963 Chemistry
• Richard L.M. Synge — 1952 Chemistry
• Sir Nevill F. Mott — 1977 Physics

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What is Barry J. Marshall's birth card?

The 7 of Hearts. September 30 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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