George P. Smith's Birth Card: The King of Diamonds

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George Pearson Smith (born 10 March 1941) is an American biologist and Nobel laureate. The birth-card coordinate for March 10 is the King of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2018 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2018 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the phage display of peptides and antibodies

The King of Diamonds coordinate

George P. Smith's birthday maps to the King of Diamonds (The Wealthy King). 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 P. Smith. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the system and you can show your work.

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George P. Smith in the public record

He is a Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, US. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, he earned his A.B. degree from Haverford College in biology, was a high school teacher and lab technician for a year, and earned his PhD degree in bacteriology and immunology from Harvard University. He was a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin (with future Nobel laureate Oliver Smithies) before moving to Columbia, Missouri and joining the University of Missouri faculty in 1975. He spent the 1983–1984 academic year at Duke University with Robert Webster where he began the work that led to him being awarded a Nobel Prize. He is best known for phage display, a technique where a specific protein sequence is artificially inserted into the coat protein gene of a bacteriophage, causing the protein to be expressed on the outside of the bacteriophage. Smith first described the technique in 1985 when he displayed peptides on filamentous phage by fusing the peptide of interest onto gene III of filamentous phage. He was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work, sharing his prize with Greg Winter and Frances Arnold. Smith is an advocate for equal rights for Palestinians and Israeli Jews in their common homeland, and a strong supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

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

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He is a Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, US.

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Also on the record

1. On the topic of religion, Smith is quoted as saying "I'm not religious or Jewish by birth.
2. But my wife is Jewish and our sons are bar-mitzvahed, and I'm very engaged with Jewish culture and politics." 2000 University of Missouri Curators' Professor 2001 Elected Fellow – American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2007 American Society for Microbiology Promega Biotechnology Research Award 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Greg Winter and Frances Arnold 2020 Elected Member – United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 2023 Inaugural Mizzou Medal of Distinction – University of Missouri College of Arts and Sciences Capsule bio in Chemical Reviews George P.
3. Smith on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture 8 December 2018 Phage Display: Simple Evolution in a Petri Dish

Other laureates with this card

• Albert Schweitzer — 1952 Peace
• Hans Bethe — 1967 Physics
• Harry Martinson — 1974 Literature
• Heinrich Wieland — 1927 Chemistry
• Hermann Hesse — 1946 Literature
• John R. Hicks — 1972 Economic Sciences
• Julian Schwinger — 1965 Physics
• Kofi Annan — 2001 Peace
• Melvin Calvin — 1961 Chemistry
• Nadia Murad — 2018 Peace
• Paul C. Lauterbur — 2003 Physiology or Medicine
• Ralph M. Steinman — 2011 Physiology or Medicine
• 7 more laureates share this card.

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What is George P. Smith's birth card?

The King of Diamonds. March 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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