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Brian Kobilka's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs
The Collaborative Builder
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Brian Kent Kobilka (born May 30, 1955) is an American physiologist and a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for discoveries that reveal the workings of G protein-coupled receptors. The birth-card coordinate for May 30 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2012 Chemistry prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 2012 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors
2012 — The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
“for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors”
Shared with Robert J. Lefkowitz (6♦). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/2.
190 other Chemistry laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The 2 of Clubs coordinate
Brian Kobilka's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative Builder). 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 Brian Kobilka. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.
Brian Kobilka in the public record
He is currently a professor in the department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also a co-founder of ConfometRx, a biotechnology company focusing on G protein-coupled receptors. He was named a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. Kobilka attended St. Mary's Grade School in Little Falls, Minnesota, a part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud. He then graduated from Little Falls High School. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Minnesota Duluth, and earned his M.D., cum laude, from Yale University School of Medicine. Following the completion of his residency in internal medicine at Washington University in St.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Brian Kobilka (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 2 of Clubs
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Brian Kobilka, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Brian Kobilka's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 2♣ — Birth Card: The Collaborative Builder
- K♥ — Karma — Environment: The Compassionate King
- A♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Truth Pioneer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- J♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
You think best with someone else in the room, and you still leave with a position of your own. You think best with others. Ideas solidify when you talk them through. You're the debater, the collaborator, the one who makes partnerships work through communication.
Kobilka is best known for his research on the structure and activity of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs); in particular, work from Kobilka's laboratory determined the molecular structure of the β2-adrenergic receptor.
Paired on shared wording: best, work.
Also on the record
- Louis School of Medicine's Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Kobilka worked in research as a postdoctoral fellow under Robert Lefkowitz at Duke University, where he started work on cloning the β2-adrenergic receptor.
- Kobilka moved to Stanford in 1989.
- He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator from 1987 to 2003.
- Kobilka is best known for his research on the structure and activity of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs); in particular, work from Kobilka's laboratory determined the molecular structure of the β2-adrenergic receptor.
Other laureates with this card
- Adam G. Riess — 2011 Physics
- Albert Claude — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
- Alexis Carrel — 1912 Physiology or Medicine
- Auguste Beernaert — 1909 Peace
- Charles B. Huggins — 1966 Physiology or Medicine
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
- Edmund S. Phelps — 2006 Economic Sciences
- Elfriede Jelinek — 2004 Literature
- F. Sherwood Rowland — 1995 Chemistry
- George Bernard Shaw — 1925 Literature
- George Wald — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
- Hannes Alfvén — 1970 Physics
- 11 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Brian Kobilka's birth card?
- The 2 of Clubs. May 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?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do Brian Kobilka's dates come from?
- Birth date 1955-05-30 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 879) + Wikidata CC0 (Q80907) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Brian Kobilka). Birth date 1955-05-30 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).