Roger Guillemin's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

In the record

Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (January 11, 1924 – February 21, 2024) was a French-American neuroscientist. The birth-card coordinate for January 11 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1977 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1977 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain

The 3 of Spades coordinate

Roger Guillemin's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful Truth). 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 Roger Guillemin. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

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Roger Guillemin in the public record

He received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year with Andrew Schally and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow. Guillemin was born in Dijon, France. After secondary studies at the Lycée Carnot in Dijon, he began his medical studies at the University of Dijon in 1943. He completed his medical studies at the University of Lyon and received MD degree in 1949. He worked as a doctor in a small village in Burgundy, and went to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to work with Hans Selye at the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the Université de Montréal where he received a Ph.D. in 1953. In 1965, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1954, Guillemin observed that pituitary cells did not produce hormones unless hypothalamic cells were present, supporting the theory that the hypothalamus controls the pituitary through hormones, dubbed releasing factors. Guillemin moved to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to develop this finding.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Spades

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He received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year with Andrew Schally and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.

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

Also on the record

1. Andrzej V.
2. Schally, known in the US as Andrew Schally, joined him in 1957.
3. Their partnership dissolved after five years due to lack of progress and personal conflicts; Schally moved to the Veterans Affairs Hospital in New Orleans.
4. Both scientists then worked independently, processing large quantities of hypothalami—Guillemin used over two million sheep hypothalami, while Schally used pig brains—funded by the U.S. government.

Other laureates with this card

• Albert Fert — 2007 Physics
• Alfred Kastler — 1966 Physics
• Benjamin List — 2021 Chemistry
• David Baltimore — 1975 Physiology or Medicine
• George Paget Thomson — 1937 Physics
• Ivar Giaever — 1973 Physics
• J. M. Coetzee — 2003 Literature
• Jacques Monod — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Jeffrey C. Hall — 2017 Physiology or Medicine
• Joseph E. Stiglitz — 2001 Economic Sciences
• Julius Wagner-Jauregg — 1927 Physiology or Medicine
• Kailash Satyarthi — 2014 Peace
• 6 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Roger Guillemin's birth card?

The 3 of Spades. January 11 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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