Gerald M. Edelman's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades

In the record

Gerald Maurice Edelman (July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014) was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. The birth-card coordinate for July 1 is the Ace of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1972 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1972 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies

The Ace of Spades coordinate

Gerald M. Edelman's birthday maps to the Ace of Spades (The Truth Pioneer). 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 Gerald M. Edelman. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard.

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Gerald M. Edelman in the public record

Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules. In interviews, he has said that the way the components of the immune system evolve over the life of the individual is analogous to the way the components of the brain evolve in a lifetime. There is a continuity in this way between his work on the immune system, for which he won the Nobel Prize, and his later work in neuroscience and in philosophy of mind. Gerald Edelman was born in 1929 in Ozone Park, Queens, New York, to Jewish parents, physician Edward Edelman, and Anna (née Freedman) Edelman, who worked in the insurance industry. He studied violin for years, but eventually realized that he did not have the inner drive needed to pursue a career as a concert violinist, and decided to go into medical research instead. He attended public schools in New York, graduating from John Adams High School, and then attended Ursinus College, where he graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in 1950. He received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1954. After a year at the Johnson Foundation for Medical Physics, Edelman became a resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital; he then practiced medicine in France while serving with US Army Medical Corps.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Spades

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Gerald Maurice Edelman (July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014) was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system.

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

Also on the record

1. In 1957, Edelman joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research as a graduate fellow, working in the laboratory of Henry Kunkel and receiving a Ph.D. in 1960.
2. The institute made him the assistant (later associate) dean of graduate studies; he became a professor at the school in 1966.
3. In 1992, he moved to California and became a professor of neurobiology at The Scripps Research Institute.
4. After his Nobel prize award, Edelman began research into the regulation of primary cellular processes, particularly the control of cell growth and the development of multi-celled organisms, focusing on cell-to-cell interactions in early embryonic development and in the formation and function of the nervous system.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred G. Gilman — 1994 Physiology or Medicine
• Arthur L. Schawlow — 1981 Physics
• Eric Betzig — 2014 Chemistry
• Gabriela Mistral — 1945 Literature
• Georg von Békésy — 1961 Physiology or Medicine
• Henryk Sienkiewicz — 1905 Literature
• Léon Jouhaux — 1951 Peace
• Makoto Kobayashi — 2008 Physics
• Myron Scholes — 1997 Economic Sciences
• Otto Loewi — 1936 Physiology or Medicine
• Sydney Brenner — 2002 Physiology or Medicine
• Takaaki Kajita — 2015 Physics
• 4 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Gerald M. Edelman's birth card?

The Ace of Spades. July 1 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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