Edward Tatum's Birth Card: The 4 of Clubs

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Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American geneticist. The birth-card coordinate for December 14 is the 4 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1958 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1958 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events

The 4 of Clubs coordinate

Edward Tatum'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 Edward Tatum. 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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Edward Tatum in the public record

He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg. Tatum was an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Edward Lawrie Tatum was born on December 14, 1909, in Boulder, Colorado to Arthur L. Tatum and Mabel Webb Tatum. Arthur L. Tatum was a chemistry professor, who by 1925 was a professor of pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Edward Lawrie Tatum attended college at the University of Chicago for two years, before transferring to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he received his BA in 1931 and PhD in 1934.

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He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism.

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

Also on the record

1. His dissertation was Studies in the biochemistry of microorganisms (1934).
2. Starting in 1937, Tatum worked at Stanford University, where he began collaborating with George Beadle on their work on fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster).
3. He then moved to Yale University in 1945 where he mentored Lederberg.
4. He returned to Stanford in 1948 and then joined the faculty of Rockefeller Institute in 1957.

Other laureates with this card

• Craig C. Mello — 2006 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

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What is Edward Tatum's birth card?

The 4 of Clubs. December 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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