Edgar Adrian's Birth Card: The 3 of Hearts

In the record

Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977) was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. The birth-card coordinate for November 30 is the 3 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1932 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1932 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons

The 3 of Hearts coordinate

Edgar Adrian's birthday maps to the 3 of Hearts (The Creative 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 Edgar Adrian. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let love have range without using newness as an exit from the one that is already here.

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Edgar Adrian in the public record

He provided experimental evidence for the all-or-none law of nerves. Adrian was born in Hampstead, London, the youngest son of Alfred Douglas Adrian, legal adviser to the Local Government Board, and Flora Lavinia Barton. He was educated at Westminster School and studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1911. In 1913 he was elected to a fellowship of Trinity College on account of his research into the "all or none" law of nerves. After completing a medical degree (MB BCh) in 1915, he undertook clinical work at St Bartholomew's Hospital London during World War I, treating soldiers with nerve damage and nervous disorders such as shell shock. Adrian returned to Cambridge as a lecturer gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1919 and in 1925 began research on the human sensory organs by electrical methods. Continuing earlier studies of Keith Lucas, he used a capillary electrometer and cathode-ray tube to amplify the signals produced by the nervous system and was able to record the electrical discharge of single nerve fibres under physical stimulus. (It seems he used frogs in his experiments) An accidental discovery by Adrian in 1928 proved the presence of electricity within nerve cells. Adrian said, I had arranged electrodes on the optic nerve of a toad in connection with some experiments on the retina.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Edgar Adrian (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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In 1942 he was awarded the Order of Merit and in the 1955 New Year Honours was created Baron Adrian of Cambridge in the County of Cambridge.

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Also on the record

1. The room was nearly dark and I was puzzled to hear repeated noises in the loudspeaker attached to the amplifier, noises indicating that a great deal of impulse activity was going on.
2. It was not until I compared the noises with my own movements around the room that I realised I was in the field of vision of the toad's eye and that it was signalling what I was doing.
3. A key result, published in 1928, stated that the excitation of the skin under constant stimulus is initially strong but gradually decreases over time, whereas the sensory impulses passing along the nerves from the point of contact are constant in strength, yet are reduced in frequency over time, and the sensation in the brain diminishes as a result.
4. Extending these results to the study of pain causes by the stimulus of the nervous system, he made discoveries about the reception of such signals in the brain and spatial distribution of the sensory areas of the cerebral cortex in different animals.

Other laureates with this card

• Andrew V. Schally — 1977 Physiology or Medicine
• Gustaf Dalén — 1912 Physics
• Henry Taube — 1983 Chemistry
• Kary B. Mullis — 1993 Chemistry
• Liu Xiaobo — 2010 Peace
• Theodor Mommsen — 1902 Literature
• Winston Churchill — 1953 Literature
• Woodrow Wilson — 1919 Peace

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