Craig C. Mello's Birth Card: The 4 of Clubs

In the record

Craig Cameron Mello (born October 18, 1960) is an American biologist and professor in the RNA Therapeutics Institute and Program for Molecular Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. The birth-card coordinate for October 18 is the 4 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2006 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2006 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA

The 4 of Clubs coordinate

Craig C. Mello's birthday maps to the 4 of Clubs (The Systematic 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 Craig C. Mello. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You put knowledge into an order other people can actually use.

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Craig C. Mello in the public record

He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference. This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998. Mello has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000. Mello was born in New Haven, Connecticut on October 18, 1960. He was the third child of James and Sally Mello. His father, James Mello, was a paleontologist and his mother, Sally Mello, was an artist. His paternal grandparents immigrated to the US from the Portuguese islands of Azores.

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

Where the record meets the 4 of Clubs

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Systematic thinking and organizational ability

This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998.

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Also on the record

1. His parents met while attending Brown University and were the first children in their respective families to attend college.
2. His grandparents on both sides withdrew from school as teenagers to work for their families.
3. James Mello completed his Ph.D. in paleontology from Yale University in 1962.
4. The Mello family moved to Falls Church in northern Virginia so that James could take a position with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in Washington, DC.

Other laureates with this card

• Edward Tatum — 1958 Physiology or Medicine
• Ernesto Teodoro Moneta — 1907 Peace
• Henri Bergson — 1927 Literature
• Henrik Pontoppidan — 1917 Literature
• José Saramago — 1998 Literature
• Nicolay G. Basov — 1964 Physics
• Patrick White — 1973 Literature
• Pearl Buck — 1938 Literature
• Robert C. Richardson — 1996 Physics
• Simon Kuznets — 1971 Economic Sciences
• Stanley B. Prusiner — 1997 Physiology or Medicine
• Theodore W. Schultz — 1979 Economic Sciences

FAQ

What is Craig C. Mello's birth card?

The 4 of Clubs. October 18 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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Where do Craig C. Mello's dates come from?

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