Günter Blobel's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs

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Günter Blobel (May 21, 1936 – February 18, 2018) was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell. The birth-card coordinate for May 21 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1999 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1999 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell

The Jack of Clubs coordinate

Günter Blobel's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative Messenger). 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 Günter Blobel. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.

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Günter Blobel in the public record

Günter Blobel was born in Waltersdorf in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia, then located in eastern Germany. In January 1945 his family fled from native Silesia to Dresden to escape from the advancing Red Army. During the bombing of Dresden, Blobel, then 8, stayed with his family at a relative's farm to the west of the city. After the war, Blobel grew up and attended gymnasium in the Saxon town of Freiberg. He studied medicine and graduated from the University of Tübingen in 1960. After two years service in a medical internship, he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, following an older brother, enrolling in the University of Wisconsin–Madison and, joining the lab of Van R. Potter for his graduate work. Blobel matriculated in 1967 with a Ph.D.

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

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In January 1945 his family fled from native Silesia to Dresden to escape from the advancing Red Army.

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1. He then moved to Rockefeller University as a postdoctoral fellow with George Palade, and was soon appointed as a professor.
2. Blobel was appointed to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1986.
3. Blobel was the sole recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of signal peptides.
4. Signal peptides form an integral part of protein targeting, a mechanism for cells to direct newly synthesized protein molecules to their proper location by means of an "address tag" (i.e., a signal peptide) within the molecule.

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• Abiy Ahmed Ali — 2019 Peace
• Albert Gobat — 1902 Peace
• Andrei Sakharov — 1975 Peace
• Arthur Henderson — 1934 Peace
• Aung San Suu Kyi — 1991 Peace
• Bengt I. Samuelsson — 1982 Physiology or Medicine
• Bertil Ohlin — 1977 Economic Sciences
• David H. Hubel — 1981 Physiology or Medicine
• Ernst B. Chain — 1945 Physiology or Medicine
• François Mauriac — 1952 Literature
• 23 more laureates share this card.

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What is Günter Blobel's birth card?

The Jack of Clubs. May 21 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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