Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

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Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard (born 20 October 1942) is a German developmental biologist and a 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. The birth-card coordinate for October 20 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1995 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1995 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development

The 2 of Clubs coordinate

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard'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 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. 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.

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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard in the public record

She is the only woman from Germany to have received a Nobel Prize in the sciences. Nüsslein-Volhard earned her PhD in 1974 from the University of Tübingen, where she studied protein-DNA interaction. She won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis, for their research on the genetic control of embryonic development. Nüsslein-Volhard was born in Magdeburg on 20 October 1942, the second of five children to Rolf Volhard, an architect, and Brigitte Haas Volhard, a nursery school teacher. She has four siblings: three sisters and one brother. She grew up and went to school in south Frankfurt, where she was exposed to art and music and thus was "trained in looking at things and recognizing things". Her great-grandfather was the chemist Jacob Volhard, and her grandfather was the known internist Franz Volhard.

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She won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis, for their research on the genetic control of embryonic development.

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Also on the record

1. She is also the aunt of the Nobel laureate in chemistry Benjamin List.
2. After the Abitur in 1962, she briefly considered pursuing medicine, but dropped the idea after doing a month-long nursing course in a hospital.
3. Instead, she opted to study biology at Goethe University Frankfurt.
4. In 1964 Nüsslein-Volhard left Frankfurt for the University of Tübingen, to start a new course in biochemistry.

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
• Brian Kobilka — 2012 Chemistry
• Charles B. Huggins — 1966 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.

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What is Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard's birth card?

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