Louis J. Ignarro's Birth Card: The Ace of Clubs

In the record

Louis Joseph Ignarro (born May 31, 1941) is an American pharmacologist. The birth-card coordinate for May 31 is the Ace of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1998 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1998 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system

The Ace of Clubs coordinate

Louis J. Ignarro's birthday maps to the Ace of Clubs (The Creative Pioneer). 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 Louis J. Ignarro. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a new idea while it is still usable, and you let it meet the world unfinished.

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Louis J. Ignarro in the public record

For demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide, he was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad. Currently, he is professor emeritus of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine's department of molecular and medical pharmacology in Los Angeles, which he joined in 1985. Before relocating to California, he was a professor of pharmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, for 12 years. Ignarro has also previously worked as a staff scientist, research department, for the pharmaceutical division of CIBA-GEIGY Corporation in New York. Ignarro has published numerous research articles. He received the Basic Research Prize of the American Heart Association in 1998. This was in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the advancement of cardiovascular science.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Clubs

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Original thinking and idea generation

Currently, he is professor emeritus of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine's department of molecular and medical pharmacology in Los Angeles, which he joined in 1985.

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

Also on the record

1. That same year, he was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences and the following year, into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2. Because nitric oxide is indirectly involved in the action of this drug, he is sometimes referred to as the "Father of Viagra".
3. He is the founder of the Nitric Oxide Society, and founder and editor-in-chief of Nitric Oxide Biology and Chemistry.
4. Ignarro holds a B.S. in pharmacy, Columbia University, 1962, and a Ph.D. in pharmacology, University of Minnesota, School of Medicine, 1966.

Other laureates with this card

• Andre Geim — 2010 Physics
• Charles M. Rice — 2020 Physiology or Medicine
• Christopher A. Sims — 2011 Economic Sciences
• Clifford G. Shull — 1994 Physics
• Demis Hassabis — 2024 Chemistry
• Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. — 1971 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick C. Robbins — 1954 Physiology or Medicine
• George E. Palade — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
• Giosuè Carducci — 1906 Literature
• Hans Fischer — 1930 Chemistry
• Hans Krebs — 1953 Physiology or Medicine
• Herbert Kroemer — 2000 Physics
• 14 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Louis J. Ignarro's birth card?

The Ace of Clubs. May 31 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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