John O'Keefe's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

In the record

John Michael O'Keefe (born November 18, 1939) is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at University College London. The birth-card coordinate for November 18 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2014 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2014 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain

The 2 of Clubs coordinate

John O'Keefe's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative 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 John O'Keefe. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.

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John O'Keefe in the public record

O'Keefe discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that they show a specific kind of temporal coding in the form of theta phase precession. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014, together with May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser; he has received several other awards. Born in New York City to Irish immigrant parents, O'Keefe attended Regis High School (Manhattan) and received a BA degree from the City College of New York in 1963. Neither of his parents had completed elementary school in Ireland, but his father attained a high school degree in New York. He went on to study at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he obtained an MA degree in 1964, and a PhD degree in Psychology in 1967, supervised by Ronald Melzack. O'Keefe went to University College London in 1967 as a US NIMH postdoctoral research fellow working with the late Patrick Wall. He has been there ever since and was promoted to Professor in 1987. At the behest of his collaborators Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser he was appointed to a part-time professorial chair at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2014.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article John O'Keefe (neuroscientist) (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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Natural partnership and team-building ability

John Michael O'Keefe (born November 18, 1939) is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at University College London.

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

Also on the record

1. O’Keefe and his student Jonathan Dostrovsky discovered place cells by systematically analyzing the environmental factors influencing the firing properties of individual hippocampal neurons.
2. His many publications on place cells have been highly cited.
3. In addition, he published an influential book with Lynn Nadel, proposing the functional role of the hippocampus as a cognitive map for spatial memory function.
4. In extensions of his work, place cells have been analyzed experimentally or simulated in models in hundreds of papers.

Other laureates with this card

• Adam G. Riess — 2011 Physics
• Albert Claude — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
• Alexis Carrel — 1912 Physiology or Medicine
• Auguste Beernaert — 1909 Peace
• Brian Kobilka — 2012 Chemistry
• Charles B. Huggins — 1966 Physiology or Medicine
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• Edmund S. Phelps — 2006 Economic Sciences
• Elfriede Jelinek — 2004 Literature
• F. Sherwood Rowland — 1995 Chemistry
• George Bernard Shaw — 1925 Literature
• George Wald — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
• 11 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is John O'Keefe's birth card?

The 2 of Clubs. November 18 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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