Rodney R. Porter's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds

In the record

Rodney Robert Porter (8 October 1917 – 6 September 1985) was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate. The birth-card coordinate for October 8 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1972 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1972 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies

The Ace of Diamonds coordinate

Rodney R. Porter's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth 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 Rodney R. Porter. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.

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Rodney R. Porter in the public record

He was born in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England, the son of Joseph Lawrence Porter, chief clerk of the Railway Carriage and Wagon Works in Earlestown (Newton-le-Willows), and his wife, Isabel May Reese. He was educated at Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School. Rodney Robert Porter received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Liverpool in 1939 for Biochemistry. His career was interrupted by World War II during which he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers serving in Sicily and North Africa. In 1944 he was promoted to Major and transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps acting as a War Department analyst, based in Naples in Italy. After the war he moved to the University of Cambridge where he became Fred Sanger's first PhD student. He was awarded his doctorate (PhD) in 1948. Porter worked for the National Institute for Medical Research for eleven years (1949–1960) before joining St.

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Where the record meets the 2 of Diamonds

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He subsequently worked with colleagues Kenneth BM Reid, Robert Sim and Duncan Campbell on developing understanding of the Complement Proteins associated with defence against infection.

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Also on the record

1. Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College London and becoming the Pfizer Professor of Immunology.
2. In 1967 he was appointed Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
3. His colleague Elizabeth Press (Betty Press) worked with him at NIMR, St Mary's and at Oxford contributing extensively to the work which led to the Nobel Prize.
4. Porter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1964.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred D. Hershey — 1969 Physiology or Medicine
• Andrea Ghez — 2020 Physics
• Arthur H. Compton — 1927 Physics
• Barbara McClintock — 1983 Physiology or Medicine
• Bernard L. Feringa — 2016 Chemistry
• Bertrand Russell — 1950 Literature
• Brian P. Schmidt — 2011 Physics
• Burton Richter — 1976 Physics
• César Milstein — 1984 Physiology or Medicine
• David J. Wineland — 2012 Physics
• Ei-ichi Negishi — 2010 Chemistry
• Erwin Schrödinger — 1933 Physics
• 18 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Rodney R. Porter's birth card?

The Ace of Diamonds. October 8 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 Rodney R. Porter's dates come from?

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