Herbert S. Gasser's Birth Card: The 10 of Diamonds

In the record

Herbert Spencer Gasser (July 5, 1888 – May 11, 1963) was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. The birth-card coordinate for July 5 is the 10 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1944 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1944 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres

The 10 of Diamonds coordinate

Herbert S. Gasser's birthday maps to the 10 of Diamonds (The Wealthy Master). 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 Herbert S. Gasser. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build enough and keep it structured so it actually holds.

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Herbert S. Gasser in the public record

Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger. Gasser was born in Platteville, Wisconsin, to Herman Gasser and Jane Elisabeth Griswold Gasser. His father was a physician from Dornbirn in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg; his mother was of New England Yankee and German Russian ancestry. Gasser attended State Normal School in Platteville, then entered the University of Wisconsin in 1907. Finishing his undergraduate studies in zoology in only two years, he enrolled in the university's medical school in 1909, studying physiology under Joseph Erlanger, and pharmacology under Arthur S. Loevenhart. While still a student, he was named an instructor in pharmacology (1911). Since UW only provided preclinical medical instruction, Gasser transferred to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1913, where he received his medical degree in 1915.

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

Where the record meets the Queen of Spades

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Deep wisdom and understanding

Herbert Spencer Gasser (July 5, 1888 – May 11, 1963) was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.

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

Also on the record

1. He then returned to UW as a pharmacology instructor.
2. In 1916 Gasser moved to the department of physiology at Washington University.
3. As the United States became involved in World War I and the armies began using chemical warfare, Gasser was urged to contribute his knowledge of human physiology to the subject.
4. Accordingly, in the summer of 1918 he joined the Armed Forces Chemical Warfare Service in Washington D.C.

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• Giorgos Seferis — 1963 Literature
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• James A. Mirrlees — 1996 Economic Sciences
• John H. Northrop — 1946 Chemistry
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What is Herbert S. Gasser's birth card?

The 10 of Diamonds. July 5 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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