Irwin Rose's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

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Irwin Allan Rose (July 16, 1926 – June 2, 2015) was an American biologist. The birth-card coordinate for July 16 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2004 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2004 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

Irwin Rose's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 Irwin Rose. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

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Irwin Rose in the public record

Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. Rose was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a secular Jewish family, the son of Ella (Greenwald) and Harry Royze, who owned a flooring store. Rose attended Washington State University for one year prior to serving in the Navy during World War II. Upon returning from the war he received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1948 and his PhD in biochemistry in 1952, both from the University of Chicago. He did his post-doctoral studies at NYU. Rose served on the faculty of Yale School of Medicine's department of biochemistry from 1954 to 1963. He then joined the Fox Chase Cancer Center in 1963 and stayed there until he retired in 1995. He joined University of Pennsylvania during the 1970s and served as a Professor of Physical Biochemistry.

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

Where the record meets the Queen of Clubs

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Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.

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

Also on the record

1. He was a distinguished professor-in-residence in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine at the time his Nobel Prize was announced in 2004.
2. Irwin (Ernie) trained several postdoctoral research fellows while at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
3. These included Art Haas, the first to see Ubiquitin chains, Keith Wilkinson, the one to first identify APF-1 as Ubiquitin, and Cecile Pickart.
4. When Irwin Rose started on his work on ubiquitin he was already distinguished as an enzymologist.

Other laureates with this card

• Adolf Butenandt — 1939 Chemistry
• Ahmed Zewail — 1999 Chemistry
• Akira Suzuki — 2010 Chemistry
• Alphonse Laveran — 1907 Physiology or Medicine
• Anton Zeilinger — 2022 Physics
• Carolyn Bertozzi — 2022 Chemistry
• Claude Simon — 1985 Literature
• Dario Fo — 1997 Literature
• Donald J. Cram — 1987 Chemistry
• Dudley R. Herschbach — 1986 Chemistry
• Eduard Buchner — 1907 Chemistry
• Edward B. Lewis — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• 32 more laureates share this card.

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What is Irwin Rose's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. July 16 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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