Richard Henderson's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

In the record

Richard Henderson (born 19 July 1945) is a British molecular biologist and biophysicist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules. The birth-card coordinate for July 19 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2017 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2017 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Richard Henderson's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian 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 Richard Henderson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

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Richard Henderson in the public record

Henderson shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank. "Thanks to his work, we can look at individual atoms of living nature, thanks to cryo-electron microscopes we can see details without destroying samples, and for this he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry." Henderson was educated at Newcastleton primary school, Hawick High School and Boroughmuir High School. His father was a baker. He went on to study Physics at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a BSc degree in Physics, 1st Class honours in 1966. He then commenced postgraduate study at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and obtained his PhD degree from the University of Cambridge in 1969. Henderson worked on the structure and mechanism of chymotrypsin for his doctorate under the supervision of David Mervyn Blow at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. His interest in membrane proteins led to him working on voltage-gated sodium channels as a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University. Returning to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 1975, Henderson worked with Nigel Unwin to study the structure of the membrane protein bacteriorhodopsin by electron microscopy.

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

Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs

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Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective

Henderson shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank.

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Also on the record

1. A seminal paper in Nature by Henderson and Unwin (1975) established a low resolution structural model for bacteriorhodopsin showing the protein to consist of seven transmembrane helices.
2. This paper was important for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that it showed that membrane proteins had well defined structures and that transmembrane alpha-helices could occur.
3. After 1975 Henderson continued to work on the structure of bacteriorhodopsin without Unwin.
4. In 1990 Henderson published an atomic model of bacteriorhodopsin by electron crystallography in the Journal of Molecular Biology.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred Fried — 1911 Peace
• Alva Myrdal — 1982 Peace
• Eisaku Satō — 1974 Peace
• Fritz Haber — 1918 Chemistry
• Guglielmo Marconi — 1909 Physics
• Henry W. Kendall — 1990 Physics
• Herta Müller — 2009 Literature
• Irving Langmuir — 1932 Chemistry
• James Peebles — 2019 Physics
• James Rainwater — 1975 Physics
• Jean-Paul Sartre — 1964 Literature
• John Bardeen — 1956 Physics; 1972 Physics
• 18 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Richard Henderson's birth card?

The 9 of Clubs. July 19 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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