Osamu Shimomura's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts

In the record

Osamu Shimomura (下村 脩, Shimomura Osamu; August 27, 1928 – October 19, 2018) was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and professor emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine. The birth-card coordinate for August 27 is the Queen of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2008 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2008 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP

The Queen of Hearts coordinate

Osamu Shimomura's birthday maps to the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted Nurturer). 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 Osamu Shimomura. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next.

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Osamu Shimomura in the public record

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two American scientists: Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Roger Tsien of the University of California-San Diego. Born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto in 1928, Shimomura was brought up in Manchukuo (Manchuria, China) and Osaka, Japan while his father served as an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. Later, his family moved to Isahaya, Nagasaki, 25 km from the epicenter of the August 1945 atomic bombing of the city. He recalled hearing, as a 16-year-old boy, the bomber plane Bockscar before the atom bomb exploded. The explosion flash blinded Shimomura for about thirty seconds, and he was later drenched by the "black rain" bomb fallout. He overcame great odds in the following 11 years to earn an education and achieve academic success. Shimomura's education opportunities were starkly limited in devastated, post-war Japan. Although he later recalled having no interest in the subject, he enrolled in the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Nagasaki Medical College (now Nagasaki University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences).

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

Where the record meets the 10 of Spades

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Deep wisdom and mental integration

Osamu Shimomura (下村 脩, Shimomura Osamu; August 27, 1928 – October 19, 2018) was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and professor emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine.

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

Also on the record

1. The Medical College campus had been entirely destroyed by the atomic bomb blast, forcing the pharmacy school to relocate to a temporary campus near Shimomura's home.
2. This proximity was the fortuitous reason he embarked upon the studies and career which would ultimately lead to unanticipated rewards.
3. Shimomura was awarded a BS degree in pharmacy in 1951, and he stayed on as a lab assistant through 1955.
4. Shimomura's mentor at Nagasaki helped him find employment as an assistant to Professor Yoshimasa Hirata at Nagoya University in 1956.

Other laureates with this card

• Albert A. Michelson — 1907 Physics
• Ales Bialiatski — 2022 Peace
• Carl Bosch — 1931 Chemistry
• Charles G. Dawes — 1925 Peace
• Dag Hammarskjöld — 1961 Peace
• Daniel L. McFadden — 2000 Economic Sciences
• Eric Cornell — 2001 Physics
• Eyvind Johnson — 1974 Literature
• Felix Bloch — 1952 Physics
• George D. Snell — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
• Il´ja M. Frank — 1958 Physics
• Isidor Isaac Rabi — 1944 Physics
• 3 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Osamu Shimomura's birth card?

The Queen of Hearts. August 27 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?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.

Where do Osamu Shimomura's dates come from?

Birth date 1928-08-27 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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