Rosalyn Yalow's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

In the record

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. The birth-card coordinate for July 19 is the 9 of Clubs — 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 the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Rosalyn Yalow's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). 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 Rosalyn Yalow. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

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Rosalyn Yalow in the public record

She was the second woman (after Gerty Cori), and the first American-born woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was born in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of Clara (née Zipper) and Simon Sussman, and was raised in a Jewish household. She went to Walton High School (Bronx), New York City. After high school, she attended the all-female, tuition-free Hunter College, where her mother hoped she would learn to become a teacher. Instead, Yalow decided to study physics. Yalow knew how to type, and was able to get a part-time position as a secretary to Dr. Rudolf Schoenheimer, a leading biochemist at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. She did not believe that any respectable graduate school would admit and financially support a woman, so she took another job as a secretary to Dr.

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

Where the record meets the Queen of Hearts

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Throughout her career, she tended to shun feminist organizations, but still advocated for including more women in science.

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Also on the record

1. Michael Heidelberger, another biochemist at Columbia, who hired her on the condition that she studied stenography.
2. She graduated from Hunter College in January 1941.
3. A few years later, she received an offer to be a teaching assistant in physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
4. She received this offer partially because World War II had just begun and many men went off to fight, and the university opted to offer women education and jobs to avoid being shut down.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred Fried — 1911 Peace
• Alva Myrdal — 1982 Peace
• Eisaku Satō — 1974 Peace
• Fritz Haber — 1918 Chemistry
• Guglielmo Marconi — 1909 Physics
• Henry W. Kendall — 1990 Physics
• Herta Müller — 2009 Literature
• Irving Langmuir — 1932 Chemistry
• James Peebles — 2019 Physics
• James Rainwater — 1975 Physics
• Jean-Paul Sartre — 1964 Literature
• John Bardeen — 1956 Physics; 1972 Physics
• 18 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Rosalyn Yalow's birth card?

The 9 of Clubs. July 19 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 Rosalyn Yalow's dates come from?

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