David Baltimore's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

In the record

David Baltimore (March 7, 1938 – September 6, 2025) was an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. The birth-card coordinate for March 7 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1975 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1975 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell

The 3 of Spades coordinate

David Baltimore's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful Truth). 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 David Baltimore. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

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David Baltimore in the public record

He was a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he served as president from 1997 to 2006. He founded the Whitehead Institute and directed it from 1982 to 1990. In 2008, he served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At age 37, Baltimore won the Nobel Prize with Renato Dulbecco and Howard M. Temin "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell", specifically the discovery of the enzyme reverse transcriptase. He contributed to immunology, virology, cancer research, biotechnology, and recombinant DNA research. He also trained many doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, several of whom have gone on to notable and distinguished research careers. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he received a number of other awards, including the U.S.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Spades

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 David Baltimore, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

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David Baltimore (March 7, 1938 – September 6, 2025) was an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: medicine.

Also on the record

1. National Medal of Science in 1999 and the Lasker Award in 2021.

Other laureates with this card

• Albert Fert — 2007 Physics
• Alfred Kastler — 1966 Physics
• Benjamin List — 2021 Chemistry
• George Paget Thomson — 1937 Physics
• Ivar Giaever — 1973 Physics
• J. M. Coetzee — 2003 Literature
• Jacques Monod — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Jeffrey C. Hall — 2017 Physiology or Medicine
• Joseph E. Stiglitz — 2001 Economic Sciences
• Julius Wagner-Jauregg — 1927 Physiology or Medicine
• Kailash Satyarthi — 2014 Peace
• Kip S. Thorne — 2017 Physics
• 6 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is David Baltimore's birth card?

The 3 of Spades. March 7 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 David Baltimore's dates come from?

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