Oliver Smithies's Birth Card: The 7 of Clubs

In the record

Oliver Smithies (23 June 1925 – 10 January 2017) was a British-American geneticist and physical biochemist. The birth-card coordinate for June 23 is the 7 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2007 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2007 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells

The 7 of Clubs coordinate

Oliver Smithies's birthday maps to the 7 of Clubs (The Analytical Creator). 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 Oliver Smithies. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take a claim apart until the usable piece is left, then you use it.

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Oliver Smithies in the public record

He is known for introducing starch as a medium for gel electrophoresis in 1955, and for the discovery, simultaneously with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more reliable method of altering animal genomes than previously used, and the technique behind gene targeting and knockout mice. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for his genetics work. Smithies was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, to William Smithies and his wife Doris, née Sykes. His father sold life insurance policies and his mother taught English at Halifax Technical College. He had a twin brother and a younger sister. He attended a primary school in the nearby village of Copley and then went to Heath Grammar School in Halifax. He said that his love of science came from an early fascination with radios and telescopes. He attended Balliol College, Oxford on a Brackenbury Scholarship, initially reading medicine.

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

Where the record meets the Jack of Spades

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Courage to speak difficult truths

He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for his genetics work.

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

Also on the record

1. He studied anatomy and physiology, winning a prize in anatomy, and graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Arts degree in animal physiology, including biochemistry, in 1946.
2. Inspired by tutorials from Alexander G.
3. Ogston on applying physical chemistry to biological systems, Smithies then switched away from medicine to earn a second bachelor's degree in chemistry.
4. He published his first research paper, co-written with Ogston, in 1948.

Other laureates with this card

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — 1970 Literature
• Andrew Z. Fire — 2006 Physiology or Medicine
• Christian Lange — 1921 Peace
• David Trimble — 1998 Peace
• Edvard I. Moser — 2014 Physiology or Medicine
• Edward A. Doisy — 1943 Physiology or Medicine
• Emmanuelle Charpentier — 2020 Chemistry
• Ernest Hemingway — 1954 Literature
• Jack Steinberger — 1988 Physics
• James E. Meade — 1977 Economic Sciences
• John R. Mott — 1946 Peace
• John R. Vane — 1982 Physiology or Medicine
• 12 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Oliver Smithies's birth card?

The 7 of Clubs. June 23 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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