Bengt I. Samuelsson's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs

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Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (21 May 1934 – 5 July 2024) was a Swedish biochemist. The birth-card coordinate for May 21 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1982 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1982 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances

The Jack of Clubs coordinate

Bengt I. Samuelsson's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative 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 Bengt I. Samuelsson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.

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Bengt I. Samuelsson in the public record

He shared with Sune K. Bergström and John R. Vane the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances. Samuelsson was born in Halmstad in southwest Sweden, studied at Lund University, and was a professor in medical and physiological chemistry at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1973. He was president of Karolinska Institute from 1983 to 1995 and chairman of the Nobel Foundation from 1993 to 2005. Discussing the role of prostaglandins in the body, Samuelsson explained, "It's a control system for the cells that participates in many biological functions. There are endless possibilities of manipulating this system in drug development." His research interests were originally in cholesterol metabolism with importance to reaction mechanisms. Following the structural work on prostaglandins along with Sune Bergström he was interested mainly in the transformation products of arachidonic acid.

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Samuelsson was born in Halmstad in southwest Sweden, studied at Lund University, and was a professor in medical and physiological chemistry at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1973.

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Also on the record

1. This has led to the identification of endoperoxides, thromboxanes and the leukotrienes, and his group has chiefly been involved in studying the chemistry, biochemistry and biology of these compounds and their function in biological control systems.
2. This research has implications in numerous clinical areas, especially in thrombosis, inflammation, and allergy.
3. This field has grown enormously since those days.
4. Between 1981 and 1995, about 3,000 papers per year were published that specifically used the expression "prostaglandins," or related terms such as "prostacyclins," "leukotrienes," and "thromboxanes," in their labels and titles.

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