Bert Sakmann's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

Bert Sakmann (born 12 June 1942) is a German cell physiologist. The birth-card coordinate for June 12 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1991 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1991 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

Bert Sakmann's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). 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 Bert Sakmann. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.

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Bert Sakmann in the public record

He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch clamp. Bert Sakmann was Professor at Heidelberg University and is an emeritus scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. Since 2008 he leads an emeritus research group at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology. Sakmann was born in Stuttgart, the son of Annemarie (née Schaefer), a physical therapist, and Bertold Sakmann, a theater director. Sakmann enrolled in Volksschule in Lindau, and completed the Wagenburg gymnasium in Stuttgart in 1961. He studied medicine from 1967 onwards in Tübingen, Freiburg, Berlin, Paris and Munich. After completing his medical exams at LMU Munich, he became a medical assistant in 1968 at LMU Munich, while also working as a scientific assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at Munich's Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, in the Neurophysiology Department under Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt. In 1971, he moved to University College London, where he worked in the Department of Biophysics under Bernard Katz.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Clubs

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Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly

Bert Sakmann was Professor at Heidelberg University and is an emeritus scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany.

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Also on the record

1. In 1974, he completed his medical dissertation, under the title Elektrophysiologie der neuralen Helladaptation in der Katzenretina (Electrophysiology of Neural Light Adaption in the Cat Retina) in the Medical Faculty of Göttingen University.
2. Afterwards (still in 1974), Sakmann returned to the lab of Otto Creutzfeldt, who had meanwhile moved to the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen.
3. Sakmann joined the membrane biology group in 1979.
4. In 1990, he accepted a position at the Faculty of Natural Science Medicine at Heidelberg University.

Other laureates with this card

• Alan Heeger — 2000 Chemistry
• Alice Munro — 2013 Literature
• Anatole France — 1921 Literature
• Christopher A. Pissarides — 2010 Economic Sciences
• Claudia Goldin — 2023 Economic Sciences
• Edward V. Appleton — 1947 Physics
• Ernest Lawrence — 1939 Physics
• F.W. de Klerk — 1993 Peace
• Fritz Lipmann — 1953 Physiology or Medicine
• George F. Smoot — 2006 Physics
• Jane Addams — 1931 Peace
• John Macleod — 1923 Physiology or Medicine
• 16 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Bert Sakmann's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. June 12 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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