Daniel Nathans's Birth Card: The 5 of Hearts

In the record

Daniel Nathans (October 30, 1928 – November 16, 1999) was an American microbiologist. The birth-card coordinate for October 30 is the 5 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1978 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1978 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics

The 5 of Hearts coordinate

Daniel Nathans's birthday maps to the 5 of Hearts (The Restless Heart). 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 Daniel Nathans. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let love change shape without using motion as a way out of being seen.

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Daniel Nathans in the public record

Along with American researcher Hamilton Smith and Swiss researcher Werner Arber, he shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application in restriction mapping. Nathans was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the last of nine children born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Sarah (Levitan) and Samuel Nathans. During the Great Depression his father lost his small business and was unemployed for a long time. Nathans attended public schools and then to the University of Delaware, where he received his B.S. degree in chemistry in 1950. He received his M.D. degree from Washington University School of Medicine in 1954 and did a one-year internship at Presbyterian Medical Center with Robert Loeb. Wanting a break before his medical residency, Nathans became a clinical associate at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. There he split his time between caring for patients receiving experimental cancer chemotherapy and research on recently discovered plasma-cell tumors in mice, similar to human multiple myeloma. Struck by how little was known about cancer biology, he became interested in protein synthesis in myeloma tumors, and published his first papers on this research.

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Where the record meets the 5 of Hearts

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Adaptability through emotional change and transition

Nathans was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the last of nine children born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Sarah (Levitan) and Samuel Nathans.

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Also on the record

1. Nathans returned to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center for a two-year residency in 1957, again on Robert Loeb's service.
2. He continued working on the problem of protein synthesis as time allowed.
3. In 1959, he decided to work on the research full time and became a research associate at Fritz Lipmann's lab at the Rockefeller Institute in New York.
4. In 1962, Nathans came to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as an assistant professor of microbiology.

Other laureates with this card

• Dickinson W. Richards — 1956 Physiology or Medicine
• Edward C. Prescott — 2004 Economic Sciences
• Gerhard Domagk — 1939 Physiology or Medicine
• José Ramos-Horta — 1996 Peace
• Leland Hartwell — 2001 Physiology or Medicine
• Ragnar Granit — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
• Russell A. Hulse — 1993 Physics
• Sir Norman Angell — 1933 Peace
• Theodor W. Hänsch — 2005 Physics

FAQ

What is Daniel Nathans's birth card?

The 5 of Hearts. October 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?

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