Carol W. Greider's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds

In the record

Carolyn Widney Greider (born April 15, 1961) is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate. The birth-card coordinate for April 15 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2009 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2009 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase

The 6 of Diamonds coordinate

Carol W. Greider's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). 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 Carol W. Greider. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.

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Carol W. Greider in the public record

She is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Greider discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984, while she was a graduate student of Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of California, Berkeley. Greider pioneered research on the structure of telomeres, the ends of the chromosomes. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak, for their discovery that telomeres are protected from progressive shortening by the enzyme telomerase. Greider was born in San Diego, California. Both of her parents were academics. Her father, Kenneth Greider, was a physics professor.

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

Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs

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Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective

She is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: professor.

Also on the record

1. Her family moved from San Diego to Davis, California, where she spent many of her early years and graduated from Davis Senior High School in 1979.
2. She graduated from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a B.A. in biology in 1983.
3. During this time she also studied at the University of Göttingen and made significant discoveries there.
4. Greider is dyslexic and states that her "compensatory skills also played a role in my success as a scientist because one has to intuit many different things that are going on at the same time and apply those to a particular problem".

Other laureates with this card

• Ben R. Mottelson — 1975 Physics
• Carl von Ossietzky — 1935 Peace
• Carlos Saavedra Lamas — 1936 Peace
• Charles J. Pedersen — 1987 Chemistry
• David J. Gross — 2004 Physics
• Elinor Ostrom — 2009 Economic Sciences
• J. Robin Warren — 2005 Physiology or Medicine
• James M. Buchanan Jr. — 1986 Economic Sciences
• James P. Allison — 2018 Physiology or Medicine
• Jennifer A. Doudna — 2020 Chemistry
• Johannes Stark — 1919 Physics
• John C. Mather — 2006 Physics
• 15 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Carol W. Greider's birth card?

The 6 of Diamonds. April 15 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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