Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Robert J. Lefkowitz's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds
The Generous Provider
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Robert Joseph Lefkowitz (born April 15, 1943) is an American physician (internist and cardiologist) and biochemist. The birth-card coordinate for April 15 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2012 Chemistry prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 2012 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors
2012 — The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
“for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors”
Shared with Brian Kobilka (2♣). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/2.
190 other Chemistry laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The 6 of Diamonds coordinate
Robert J. Lefkowitz's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). 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 J. Lefkowitz. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.
Robert J. Lefkowitz in the public record
He is best known for his discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family of G protein-coupled receptors, for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Brian Kobilka. He is currently an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke University. Lefkowitz was born on April 15, 1943, in The Bronx, New York to Jewish parents Max and Rose Lefkowitz. Their families had emigrated to the United States from Poland in the late 19th century. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science in 1959, he attended Columbia College from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry in 1962. At Columbia, Lefkowitz studied under Ronald Breslow. He graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1966 with an M.D. degree.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Robert Lefkowitz (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 Robert J. Lefkowitz, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Robert J. Lefkowitz's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 6♦ — Birth Card: The Generous Provider
- 3♠ — Karma — Environment: The Sorrowful Truth
- 9♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Humanitarian Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- A♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Ability to see what needs fixing
He is currently an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke University.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: medical, medicine.
Also on the record
- After serving an internship and one year of general medical residency at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, he served as clinical and research associate at the National Institutes of Health from 1968 to 1970.
- Upon completing his medical residency and research and clinical training in 1973, he was appointed associate professor of medicine and assistant professor of biochemistry at the Duke University Medical Center.
- In 1977, he was promoted to professor of medicine and in 1982 to James B.
- Duke Professor of Medicine at Duke University.
Other laureates with this card
- Ben R. Mottelson — 1975 Physics
- Carl von Ossietzky — 1935 Peace
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas — 1936 Peace
- Carol W. Greider — 2009 Physiology or Medicine
- Charles J. Pedersen — 1987 Chemistry
- David J. Gross — 2004 Physics
- Elinor Ostrom — 2009 Economic Sciences
- J. Robin Warren — 2005 Physiology or Medicine
- James M. Buchanan Jr. — 1986 Economic Sciences
- James P. Allison — 2018 Physiology or Medicine
- Jennifer A. Doudna — 2020 Chemistry
- Johannes Stark — 1919 Physics
- 15 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Robert J. Lefkowitz's birth card?
- The 6 of Diamonds. April 15 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 Robert J. Lefkowitz's dates come from?
- Birth date 1943-04-15 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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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 878) + Wikidata CC0 (Q80910) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Robert Lefkowitz). Birth date 1943-04-15 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).