David Julius's Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds

In the record

David Jay Julius (born November 4, 1955) is an American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on molecular mechanisms of pain sensation and heat, including the characterization of the TRPV1 and TRPM8 receptors that detect capsaicin, menthol, and temperature. The birth-card coordinate for November 4 is the 3 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2021 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2021 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch

The 3 of Diamonds coordinate

David Julius's birthday maps to the 3 of Diamonds (The Success Communicator). 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 Julius. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You keep more than one path alive without letting any of them stay imaginary.

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David Julius in the public record

He is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Julius won the 2010 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine and the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. In 2020 he was awarded The Kavli Prize, and in 2021 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Ardem Patapoutian. Julius was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Russia) in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York City, where he attended Abraham Lincoln High School. He earned his undergraduate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977. He attained his doctorate from University of California, Berkeley in 1984, under joint supervision of Jeremy Thorner and Randy Schekman, where he identified Kex2 as the founding member of furin-like proprotein convertases. In 1989, he completed his post-doctoral training with Richard Axel at Columbia University where he cloned and characterized the serotonin 1c receptor. While at Berkeley and Columbia, Julius became interested in how psilocybin mushrooms and lysergic acid diethylamide work, which led him to look more broadly into how things from nature interact with human receptors.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article David Julius (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

He is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: professor. This line comes from the Uranus position of the 3♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. He started his career as faculty at the University of California, San Francisco in 1989.
2. In 1997, Julius's lab cloned and characterized TRPV1 which is the receptor that detects capsaicin, the chemical in chili peppers that makes them "hot".
3. They found that TRPV1 also detects noxious heat (thermoception).
4. TRPV1 is part of a large family of structurally related TRP (transient receptor potential) cation channels.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfonso García Robles — 1982 Peace
• Arne Tiselius — 1948 Chemistry
• Aziz Sancar — 2015 Chemistry
• Bengt Holmström — 2016 Economic Sciences
• Charles K. Kao — 2009 Physics
• Dan Shechtman — 2011 Chemistry
• Derek Barton — 1969 Chemistry
• Elias James Corey — 1990 Chemistry
• Ernest T.S. Walton — 1951 Physics
• Erwin Neher — 1991 Physiology or Medicine
• Frédéric Mistral — 1904 Literature
• Gary Becker — 1992 Economic Sciences
• 20 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is David Julius's birth card?

The 3 of Diamonds. November 4 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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