Paul Greengard's Birth Card: The 7 of Clubs

In the record

Paul Greengard (December 11, 1925 – April 13, 2019) was an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons. The birth-card coordinate for December 11 is the 7 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2000 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2000 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system

The 7 of Clubs coordinate

Paul Greengard'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 Paul Greengard. 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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Paul Greengard in the public record

In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system. He was Vincent Astor Professor at Rockefeller University, and served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cure Alzheimer's Fund, as well as the Scientific Council of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. He was married to artist Ursula von Rydingsvard. Greengard was born in New York City, the son of Pearl (née Meister) and Benjamin Greengard, a vaudeville comedian. His older sister was actress Irene Kane, who later became a writer by the name of Chris Chase; she died in 2013, aged 89. Their mother died in childbirth and their father remarried in 1927. The Greengard siblings' parents were Jewish, but their stepmother was Episcopalian. He and his sister were "brought up in the Christian tradition".

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

Where the record meets the 7 of Clubs

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Penetrating analysis and pattern recognition

He was Vincent Astor Professor at Rockefeller University, and served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cure Alzheimer's Fund, as well as the Scientific Council of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.

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

Also on the record

1. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy as an electronics technician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on an early warning system against Japanese kamikaze planes.
2. After World War II, he attended Hamilton College where he graduated in 1948 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics.
3. He decided against graduate school in physics because most post-war physics research was focusing on nuclear weapons, and instead became interested in biophysics.
4. Greengard began his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University in the lab of Haldan Keffer Hartline.

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 Paul Greengard's birth card?

The 7 of Clubs. December 11 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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Where do Paul Greengard's dates come from?

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