Robert F. Furchgott's Birth Card: The King of Diamonds

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Robert Francis Furchgott (June 4, 1916 – May 19, 2009) was an American Nobel Prize winning biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems. The birth-card coordinate for June 4 is the King of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1998 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1998 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system

The King of Diamonds coordinate

Robert F. Furchgott's birthday maps to the King of Diamonds (The Wealthy King). 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 Robert F. Furchgott. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the system and you can show your work.

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Robert F. Furchgott in the public record

Furchgott was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to Arthur Furchgott (December 1884 – January 1971), a department store owner, and Pena (Sorentrue) Furchgott. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1937 with a degree in chemistry and went on to earn a Ph.D in biochemistry at Northwestern University in 1940. Furchgott was faculty member and professor of pharmacology at Cornell University Medical College from 1940 to 1949, at Washington University School of Medicine from 1949 to 1956, at SUNY Brooklyn from 1956 to 1989, and at the University of Miami from 1989 through the end of his career. In 1978, Furchgott discovered a substance in endothelial cells that relaxes blood vessels, calling it endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF). By 1986, he had worked out EDRF's nature and mechanism of action, and determined that EDRF was in fact nitric oxide (NO), an important compound in many aspects of cardiovascular physiology. This research is important in explaining a wide variety of neuronal, cardiovascular, and general physiologic processes of central importance in human health and disease. In addition to receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of nitric oxide as a new cellular signal in 1998 with Louis Ignarro and Ferid Murad, Furchgott's discovery that nitric oxide causes blood vessels to dilate provided a long-sought explanation for the therapeutic effects of nitroglycerin used to treat angina pectoris and was later instrumental in the development of the erectile dysfunction treatment drug Viagra. In 1991, Furchgott received a Gairdner Foundation International Award for his groundbreaking discoveries.

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

Where the record meets the 7 of Spades

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Penetrating questions and inquiry

Furchgott was faculty member and professor of pharmacology at Cornell University Medical College from 1940 to 1949, at Washington University School of Medicine from 1949 to 1956, at SUNY Brooklyn from 1956 to 1989, and at the University of Miami from 1989 through the end of his career.

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

Also on the record

1. He also received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1996 and the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1999 with Ferid Murad.
2. Furchgott was Jewish and lived most of his married and career life in Woodmere, New York on Long Island.
3. He was married to Lenore Mandelbaum (February 1915 – April 1983) from 1941 until her death at age 68.
4. They had three daughters: Jane, Terry, and Susan.

Other laureates with this card

• Albert Schweitzer — 1952 Peace
• George P. Smith — 2018 Chemistry
• Hans Bethe — 1967 Physics
• Harry Martinson — 1974 Literature
• Heinrich Wieland — 1927 Chemistry
• Hermann Hesse — 1946 Literature
• John R. Hicks — 1972 Economic Sciences
• Julian Schwinger — 1965 Physics
• Kofi Annan — 2001 Peace
• Melvin Calvin — 1961 Chemistry
• Nadia Murad — 2018 Peace
• Paul C. Lauterbur — 2003 Physiology or Medicine
• 7 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Robert F. Furchgott's birth card?

The King of Diamonds. June 4 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 Robert F. Furchgott's dates come from?

Birth date 1916-06-04 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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