Marshall W. Nirenberg's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

In the record

Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927 – January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist. The birth-card coordinate for April 10 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1968 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1968 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Marshall W. Nirenberg's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). 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 Marshall W. Nirenberg. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

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Marshall W. Nirenberg in the public record

He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for "breaking the genetic code" and describing how it operates in protein synthesis. In the same year, together with Har Gobind Khorana, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. Nirenberg was born in New York City to a Jewish family, the son of Minerva (Bykowsky) and Harry Edward Nirenberg, a shirtmaker. He developed rheumatic fever as a boy, so the family moved to Orlando, Florida to take advantage of the subtropical climate. He developed an early interest in biology. In 1948 he received his BS degree, and in 1952, a master's degree in zoology from the University of Florida at Gainesville where he was also a member of the Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity. His dissertation for the Master's thesis was an ecological and taxonomic study of caddis flies (Trichoptera).

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

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He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W.

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

Also on the record

1. He received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1957, studying hexose uptake in tumor cells with his advisor James F.
2. Hogg.
3. He began his postdoctoral work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1957 as a fellow of the American Cancer Society in what was then called the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases.
4. In 1959 he became a research biochemist at the NIH and began to study the steps that relate DNA, RNA and protein.

Other laureates with this card

• André Lwoff — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Bernardo Houssay — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• C.T.R. Wilson — 1927 Physics
• Edwin G. Krebs — 1992 Physiology or Medicine
• Eugene F. Fama — 2013 Economic Sciences
• Ferdinand Braun — 1909 Physics
• Friedrich von Hayek — 1974 Economic Sciences
• Gerard Debreu — 1983 Economic Sciences
• H. Robert Horvitz — 2002 Physiology or Medicine
• Heinrich Rohrer — 1986 Physics
• Henry Dunant — 1901 Peace
• Herbert A. Hauptman — 1985 Chemistry
• 8 more laureates share this card.

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What is Marshall W. Nirenberg's birth card?

The Jack of Diamonds. April 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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