Roger Y. Tsien's Birth Card: The Jack of Spades

In the record

Roger Yonchien Tsien (Chinese: 錢永健; February 1, 1952 – August 24, 2016) was an American biochemist. The birth-card coordinate for February 1 is the Jack of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2008 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2008 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP

The Jack of Spades coordinate

Roger Y. Tsien's birthday maps to the Jack of Spades (The Messenger of 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 Y. Tsien. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name what is actually happening and you remain after you have said it.

Live Jack of Spades meaning page

Roger Y. Tsien in the public record

He was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemist Osamu Shimomura and neurobiologist Martin Chalfie. Tsien was also a pioneer of calcium imaging. Tsien was born to a Chinese American family in New York in 1952. He grew up in Livingston, New Jersey, and attended Livingston High School. Tsien traces his family ancestry to Hangzhou, China. His father Hsue-Chu Tsien, an MIT and Shanghai Chiao Tung University alumnus, was a mechanical engineer and had excelled academically, graduating at the top of his university class. Tsien suffered from asthma as a child, and as a result, he was often indoors. He spent hours conducting chemistry experiments in his basement laboratory.

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

Where the record meets the 10 of Clubs

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 Roger Y. Tsien, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Intellectual mastery and deep expertise

He was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemist Osamu Shimomura and neurobiologist Martin Chalfie.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: chemistry, professor.

Also on the record

1. When he was 16, he won first prize in the nationwide Westinghouse Talent Search with a project investigating how metals bind to thiocyanate.
2. Tsien attended Harvard College on a National Merit Scholarship and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior.
3. He graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry and physics in 1972.
4. According to his freshman-year roommate, economist and Iowa politician Herman Quirmbach, "It's probably not an exaggeration to say he's the smartest person I ever met ... [a]nd I have met a lot of brilliant people." After completing his bachelor's degree, Tsien joined the Physiological Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England with the aid of a Marshall Scholarship, and resided at Churchill College, Cambridge.

Other laureates with this card

• Emilio Segrè — 1959 Physics
• Leymah Gbowee — 2011 Peace

FAQ

What is Roger Y. Tsien's birth card?

The Jack of Spades. February 1 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 Roger Y. Tsien's dates come from?

Birth date 1952-02-01 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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