Robert W. Holley's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

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Robert William Holley (January 28, 1922 – February 11, 1993) was an American biochemist. The birth-card coordinate for January 28 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1968 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1968 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

Robert W. Holley's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 W. Holley. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

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Robert W. Holley in the public record

He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 (with Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall Warren Nirenberg) for describing the structure of alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis. Holley was born in Urbana, Illinois, and graduated from Urbana High School in 1938. He went on to study chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1942 and commencing his PhD studies in organic chemistry at Cornell University. During World War II Holley spent two years working under Professor Vincent du Vigneaud at Cornell University Medical College, where he was involved in the first chemical synthesis of penicillin. Holley completed his PhD studies in 1947. Following his graduate studies Holley remained associated with Cornell. He became an assistant professor of organic chemistry in 1948, and was appointed as professor of biochemistry in 1962. He began his research on RNA after spending a year's sabbatical (1955–1956) studying with James F.

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He went on to study chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1942 and commencing his PhD studies in organic chemistry at Cornell University.

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Also on the record

1. Bonner at the California Institute of Technology.
2. Holley's research on RNA focused first on isolating transfer RNA (tRNA), and later on determining the sequence and structure of alanine tRNA, the molecule that incorporates the amino acid alanine into proteins.
3. Holley's team of researchers determined the tRNA's structure by using two ribonucleases to split the tRNA molecule into pieces.
4. Each enzyme split the molecule at location points for specific nucleotides.

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• Claude Simon — 1985 Literature
• Dario Fo — 1997 Literature
• Donald J. Cram — 1987 Chemistry
• Dudley R. Herschbach — 1986 Chemistry
• Eduard Buchner — 1907 Chemistry
• Edward B. Lewis — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• 32 more laureates share this card.

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The Queen of Clubs. January 28 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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