Jean Dausset's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

In the record

Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset (19 October 1916 – 6 June 2009) was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. The birth-card coordinate for October 19 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1980 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1980 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions

The 3 of Clubs coordinate

Jean Dausset's birthday maps to the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). 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 Jean Dausset. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move an idea across more than one channel without abandoning the one that needs depth.

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Jean Dausset in the public record

Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell for their discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex. Using the money from his Nobel Prize and a grant from the French Television, Dausset founded the Human Polymorphism Study Center (CEPH) in 1984, which was later renamed the Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH in his honour. He married Rose Mayoral in 1963, with whom he had two children, Henri and Irène. Jean Dausset died on June 6, 2009, in Mallorca, Spain, at the age of 92. Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset was born on 19 October 1916, in Toulouse, France. He was the youngest of four children of Henri Dausset and Elisabeth Dausset (born Renard). His father was from the Pyrénées, and was a doctor by profession, and his mother was a housewife from Lorraine. Following the end of World War I the Dausset family moved to Biarritz where Jean spent most of his childhood.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Clubs

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Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell for their discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex.

Paired on shared wording: complex, making.

Also on the record

1. His father was head doctor at the Bayonne Hospital, a position that would make a great impression on Jean.
2. Dausset was home schooled by his mother, as well as by a tutor, who would periodically come to the house.
3. At the age of 11, Dausset and his family moved to Paris.
4. He began his formal schooling at the Lycée Michelet, at age 15.

Other laureates with this card

• Angus Deaton — 2015 Economic Sciences
• Charles Nicolle — 1928 Physiology or Medicine
• David J. Thouless — 2016 Physics
• Donald A. Glaser — 1960 Physics
• Elias Canetti — 1981 Literature
• Eugene Wigner — 1963 Physics
• Frances H. Arnold — 2018 Chemistry
• Hamilton O. Smith — 1978 Physiology or Medicine
• Hans Spemann — 1935 Physiology or Medicine
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — 1913 Physics
• Henri Becquerel — 1903 Physics
• John B. Goodenough — 2019 Chemistry
• 14 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Jean Dausset's birth card?

The 3 of Clubs. October 19 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 Jean Dausset's dates come from?

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