Jacques Dubochet's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds

In the record

Jacques Dubochet (born 8 June 1942) is a retired Swiss biophysicist. The birth-card coordinate for June 8 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2017 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2017 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution

The 9 of Diamonds coordinate

Jacques Dubochet's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). 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 Jacques Dubochet. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.

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Jacques Dubochet in the public record

He is a former researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and an honorary professor of biophysics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. In 2017, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution". He received the Royal Photographic Society Progress Medal, alongside his colleagues Professor Joachim Frank and Dr Richard Henderson, in 2018 for 'an important advance in the scientific or technological development of photography or imaging in the widest sense'. Dubochet started to study physics at the École polytechnique de l'Université de Lausanne (now École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) in 1962 and obtained his degree in physical engineering in 1967. He obtained a Certificate of Molecular Biology at University of Geneva in 1969 and then began to study electron microscopy of DNA. In 1973, he completed his thesis in biophysics at University of Geneva and University of Basel. From 1978 to 1987, Dubochet was group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, then part of West Germany. From 1987 to 2007, he was professor at the University of Lausanne.

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

Where the record meets the 2 of Clubs

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He is a former researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and an honorary professor of biophysics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: professor, researcher. This line comes from the Venus position of the 9♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. In 2007, at 65 years old, he retired and became an honorary professor at the University of Lausanne.
2. During his career, Dubochet developed technologies in cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography and cryo-electron microscopy of vitreous sections.
3. These technologies are used to image individual biological structures such as protein complexes or virus particles.
4. At Lausanne he took part in initiatives to make scientists more aware of social issues.

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• George E. Smith — 2009 Physics
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• 9 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Jacques Dubochet's birth card?

The 9 of Diamonds. June 8 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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Where do Jacques Dubochet's dates come from?

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