Paul Modrich's Birth Card: The 4 of Diamonds

In the record

Paul Lawrence Modrich (born June 13, 1946) is an American biochemist, James B. The birth-card coordinate for June 13 is the 4 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2015 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2015 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for mechanistic studies of DNA repair

The 4 of Diamonds coordinate

Paul Modrich's birthday maps to the 4 of Diamonds (The Financial Foundation Builder). 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 Modrich. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.

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Paul Modrich in the public record

Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is known for his research on DNA mismatch repair. Modrich received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015, jointly with Aziz Sancar and Tomas Lindahl. Modrich was born on June 13, 1946, in Raton, New Mexico to Laurence Modrich and Margaret McTurk. He has a younger brother Dave. His father was a biology teacher and coach for basketball, football and tennis at Raton High School where he graduated in 1964. Modrich is of Croatian, Montenegrin, German and Scottish (Gaelic) origin. His paternal grandfather, of Croatian descent, is probably from the small village of Modrići near Zadar, and grandmother of Montenegrin descent, both immigrated to the United States from coastal Croatia in the late 19th century.

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

Where the record meets the 5 of Spades

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Paul Lawrence Modrich (born June 13, 1946) is an American biochemist, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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

Also on the record

1. His maternal family is of mixed German and Scotch-Irish descent.
2. Modrich married fellow scientist Vickers Burdett in 1980.
3. Modrich obtained a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968 and subsequently a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1973.
4. He continued his research as a postdoc in the lab of Charles C.

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• Frank Wilczek — 2004 Physics
• Frédéric Joliot — 1935 Chemistry
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• Gertrude B. Elion — 1988 Physiology or Medicine
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• 22 more laureates share this card.

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What is Paul Modrich's birth card?

The 4 of Diamonds. June 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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