Randy W. Schekman's Birth Card: The Ace of Hearts

In the record

Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. The birth-card coordinate for December 30 is the Ace of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2013 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2013 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells

The Ace of Hearts coordinate

Randy W. Schekman's birthday maps to the Ace of Hearts (The Emotional Pioneer). 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 Randy W. Schekman. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start real connection on purpose: you say what you feel and leave room for the other person to answer.

Live Ace of Hearts meaning page

Randy W. Schekman in the public record

In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust, launching in 2012. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking. Schekman was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Alfred Schekman, an electrical engineer and computer software designer and Esther (Bader) Schekman. His family were Jewish emigrants from Russia and Bessarabia. In the late 1950s his family moved to the new suburban community of Rossmoor, located in Orange County next to Long Beach. He graduated from Western High School in Anaheim, California, in 1966.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Spades

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Randy W. Schekman, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Ability to see what needs fixing

In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust, launching in 2012.

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

Also on the record

1. He received a BA in molecular biology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1971.
2. He spent his third year at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, as an exchange student.
3. He received a PhD in 1975 from Stanford University for research on DNA replication, working with Arthur Kornberg.
4. After joining the faculty at University of California Berkeley, he was promoted to associate professor in 1981, and professor in 1984.

Other laureates with this card

• Rudyard Kipling — 1907 Literature
• Tu Youyou — 2015 Physiology or Medicine

FAQ

What is Randy W. Schekman's birth card?

The Ace of Hearts. December 30 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 Randy W. Schekman's dates come from?

Birth date 1948-12-30 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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