George D. Snell's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts

In the record

George Davis Snell NAS (December 19, 1903 – June 6, 1996) was an American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist. The birth-card coordinate for December 19 is the Queen of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1980 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1980 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions

The Queen of Hearts coordinate

George D. Snell's birthday maps to the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted Nurturer). 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 George D. Snell. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next.

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George D. Snell in the public record

George Snell shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Baruj Benacerraf and Jean Dausset for their discoveries concerning "genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions". Snell specifically "discovered the genetic factors that determine the possibilities of transplanting tissue from one individual to another. It was Snell who introduced the concept of H antigens."[1] Snell's work in mice led to the discovery of HLA, the major histocompatibility complex, in humans (and all vertebrates) that is analogous to the H-2 complex in mice. Recognition of these key genes was prerequisite to successful tissue and organ transplantation. George Snell was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, the youngest of three children. His father (who was born in Minnesota) worked as a secretary for the local YMCA; he invented a device for winding induction coils for motorboat engines. Snell was educated in the Brookline, Massachusetts schools and then enrolled at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire where he continued his passion for mathematics and science, focusing on genetics. He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth in 1926.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article George Davis Snell (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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This experience "served to convince me that research was my real love," Snell wrote in his autobiography.[2]"If it were to be research, mouse genetics was the clear choice and the Jackson Laboratory, founded in 1929 by Dr. Clarence Cook Little, one of Castle's earlier students, almost the inevitable selection as a place to work." The Jackson Laboratory was (and still is) the world's mecca for mouse genetics.

Paired on shared wording: still, work.

Also on the record

1. On the recommendation of John Gerould, his genetics professor at Dartmouth, Snell did graduate work at Harvard University with William E.
2. Castle, the first American biologist to look for Mendelian inheritance in mammals.
3. Snell earned his PhD from Harvard in 1930.
4. His doctoral thesis was on genetic linkage in mice.

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What is George D. Snell's birth card?

The Queen of Hearts. December 19 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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