Joseph Erlanger's Birth Card: The 9 of Spades

In the record

Joseph Erlanger (January 5, 1874 – December 5, 1965) was an American physiologist who is best known for his contributions to the field of neuroscience. The birth-card coordinate for January 5 is the 9 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1944 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1944 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres

The 9 of Spades coordinate

Joseph Erlanger's birthday maps to the 9 of Spades (The Idealistic Mind). 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 Joseph Erlanger. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You complete the hard stretch and put the lesson down.

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Joseph Erlanger in the public record

Together with Herbert Spencer Gasser, he identified several varieties of nerve fiber and established the relationship between action potential velocity and fiber diameter. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for these achievements. Erlanger was born on January 5, 1874, in San Francisco, California. His Jewish father immigrated from Buchau Kingdom of Württemberg, Germany and his mother also immigrated from Kingdom of Württemberg, Germany, she was also Jewish. They got to know each other in California during the Gold Rush. Joseph was the sixth of seven children born to the couple. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1895. He then completed his M.D. in 1899 from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, where he finished second in his class.

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

Where the record meets the 9 of Spades

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Visionary thinking and universal perspective

They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for these achievements.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: medicine.

Also on the record

1. Upon graduating, Erlanger interned at Johns Hopkins Hospital under William Osler and worked in a physiology laboratory.
2. Erlanger also gave lectures at the school on digestion and metabolism.
3. Erlanger also had an interest in cardiology, specifically the way that excitation transferred from the atrium to the ventricle and researched with Arthur Hirschfelder.
4. Erlanger developed and patented a new type of sphygmomanometer that could measure blood pressure from the brachial artery.

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• Denis Mukwege — 2018 Peace
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• Rudolf Eucken — 1908 Literature
• Yitzhak Rabin — 1994 Peace

FAQ

What is Joseph Erlanger's birth card?

The 9 of Spades. January 5 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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