George Wald's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

In the record

George Wald (November 18, 1906 – April 12, 1997) was an American scientist and activist who studied pigments in the retina. The birth-card coordinate for November 18 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1967 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1967 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye

The 2 of Clubs coordinate

George Wald's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative 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 George Wald. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.

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George Wald in the public record

He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit. In 1970, Wald predicted that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” George Wald was born in New York City, the son of Ernestine (Rosenmann) and Isaac Wald, Jewish immigrant parents. He was a member of the first graduating class of the Brooklyn Technical High School in New York in 1923. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from New York University in 1927 and his PhD in zoology from Columbia University in 1932. After graduating, he received a travel grant from the US National Research Council. Wald used this grant to work in Germany with Otto Heinrich Warburg where he identified vitamin A in the retina. Wald then went on to work in Zürich, Switzerland, with the discoverer of vitamin A, Paul Karrer. Wald then worked briefly with Otto Fritz Meyerhof in Heidelberg, Germany, but left Europe for the University of Chicago in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power and life in Europe became more dangerous for Jews.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Spades

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about George Wald, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard.

Speaking at MIT in 1969 Wald said, "Our government has become preoccupied with death, with the business of killing and being killed." In 1980, he served as part of Ramsey Clark's delegation to Iran during the Iran hostage crisis.

Paired on shared wording: become, crisis.

Also on the record

1. In 1934, Wald went to Harvard University where he became an instructor, then a professor.
2. Wald was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1948.
3. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1950, the American Philosophical Society in 1958, and in 1967 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries in vision.
4. In 1966 he was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal by the OSA and in 1967 the Paul Karrer Gold Medal of the University of Zurich.

Other laureates with this card

• Adam G. Riess — 2011 Physics
• Albert Claude — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
• Alexis Carrel — 1912 Physiology or Medicine
• Auguste Beernaert — 1909 Peace
• Brian Kobilka — 2012 Chemistry
• Charles B. Huggins — 1966 Physiology or Medicine
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• Edmund S. Phelps — 2006 Economic Sciences
• Elfriede Jelinek — 2004 Literature
• F. Sherwood Rowland — 1995 Chemistry
• George Bernard Shaw — 1925 Literature
• Hannes Alfvén — 1970 Physics
• 11 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is George Wald's birth card?

The 2 of Clubs. November 18 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?

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