Howard M. Temin's Birth Card: The 8 of Clubs

In the record

Howard Martin Temin (December 10, 1934 – February 9, 1994) was an American geneticist and virologist. The birth-card coordinate for December 10 is the 8 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1975 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1975 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell

The 8 of Clubs coordinate

Howard M. Temin's birthday maps to the 8 of Clubs (The Ambitious 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 Howard M. Temin. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run a knowledge system other people can follow, and you stand behind the call.

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Howard M. Temin in the public record

He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore. Temin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Jewish parents, Annette (Lehman), an activist, and Henry Temin, an attorney. As a high school student at Central High School in Philadelphia, he participated in the Jackson Laboratory's Summer Student Program in Bar Harbor, Maine. The director of the program, C.C. Little, told his parents that Temin was "unquestionably the finest scientist of the fifty-seven students who have attended the program since the beginning...I can't help but feel this boy is destined to become a really great man in the field of science." Temin said that his experience at the Jackson Laboratory is what originally interested him in science. Temin's parents raised their family to have values associated with social justice and independent thinking, which was evident throughout his life. For Temin's bar mitzvah, the family donated money that would have been spent on the party to a local camp for displaced persons. Temin was also the valedictorian of his class and he devoted his speech to relevant issues at the time including the recent hydrogen bomb activity and the news of sending a man to the moon.

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

Where the record meets the 8 of Clubs

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Strategic thinking and long-term planning

Temin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Jewish parents, Annette (Lehman), an activist, and Henry Temin, an attorney.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: attorney.

Also on the record

1. Temin received a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1955 majoring and minoring in biology in the honors program.
2. He received his doctorate degree in animal virology from the California Institute of Technology in 1960.
3. Temin's first exposure to experimental science was during his time at the California Institute of Technology as a graduate student in laboratory of Professor Renato Dulbecco.
4. Temin originally studied embryology at Caltech, but after about a year and a half, he switched to animal virology.

Other laureates with this card

• Ada E. Yonath — 2009 Chemistry
• Albert Szent-Györgyi — 1937 Physiology or Medicine
• Albrecht Kossel — 1910 Physiology or Medicine
• Aristide Briand — 1926 Peace
• Arno Penzias — 1978 Physics
• Bob Dylan — 2016 Literature
• Corneille Heymans — 1938 Physiology or Medicine
• Erik Axel Karlfeldt — 1931 Literature
• Frans Eemil Sillanpää — 1939 Literature
• Gerd Binnig — 1986 Physics
• Gérard Mourou — 2018 Physics
• J. Michael Kosterlitz — 2016 Physics
• 15 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Howard M. Temin's birth card?

The 8 of Clubs. December 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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