Ferid Murad's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Ferid Murad (September 14, 1936 – September 4, 2023) was an American physician and pharmacologist, His research demonstrated that nitroglycerin relaxes smooth muscle by releasing nitric oxide into the body. The birth-card coordinate for September 14 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1998 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1998 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Ferid Murad's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master 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 Ferid Murad. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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Ferid Murad in the public record

This work led to him sharing the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Ferid Murad was born in Whiting, Indiana, on September 14, 1936. His parents were Henrietta Josephine Bowman of Alton, Illinois, and Xhabir Murat Ejupi, an Albanian immigrant from Gostivar in present-day North Macedonia, who subsequently changed his name to John Murad after being processed at Ellis Island in 1913. His mother was from a Baptist family and ran away from home in 1935, aged 17, to marry his father, who was 39 and Muslim. Murad is the oldest of three boys. Murad and his brothers were raised as Catholics. He was later baptized an Episcopalian while in college. The family owned a small restaurant while Murad was growing up, and he spent his youth working at the family business.

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

Where the record meets the 10 of Clubs

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Intellectual mastery and deep expertise

Ferid Murad (September 14, 1936 – September 4, 2023) was an American physician and pharmacologist, His research demonstrated that nitroglycerin relaxes smooth muscle by releasing nitric oxide into the body.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: research.

Also on the record

1. In the eighth grade, he was asked to write an essay of his top three career choices, which he indicated as physician, teacher and pharmacist (in 1948, clinical pharmacology was not yet a discipline in medicine).
2. He was a board-certified physician and internist doing both basic and clinical research with considerable teaching in medicine, pharmacology and clinical pharmacology and with a PhD in pharmacology.
3. Murad competed successfully for a Rector Scholarship at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, a liberal arts university on a tuition scholarship.
4. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the pre-med program at DePauw University in 1958.

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• Arthur Harden — 1929 Chemistry
• Betty Williams — 1976 Peace
• Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson — 1903 Literature
• Carl Spitteler — 1919 Literature
• Carl Wieman — 2001 Physics
• Christian Anfinsen — 1972 Chemistry
• Daniel C. Tsui — 1998 Physics
• Ernst Otto Fischer — 1973 Chemistry
• Eugenio Montale — 1975 Literature
• 28 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Ferid Murad's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. September 14 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?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.

Where do Ferid Murad's dates come from?

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