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Salvador E. Luria's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

1969 Physiology or Medicine

Born August 13, 1912

Died February 6, 1991

The Master Leader

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In the record

Salvador Edward Luria ( LOOR-ee-ə; born Salvatore Luria, Italian: [salvaˈtoːre ˈluːrja]; August 13, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized U.S. citizen. The birth-card coordinate for August 13 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1969 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

1969 — The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

“for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses”

Prize motivation, NobelPrize.org

Shared with Alfred D. Hershey (A♦), Max Delbrück (7♦). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/3.

226 other Physiology or Medicine laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.

The King of Clubs coordinate

Salvador E. Luria's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master 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 Salvador E. Luria. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Salvador E. Luria in the public record

He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. Salvador Luria also showed that bacterial resistance to viruses (phages) is genetically inherited. Luria was born Salvatore Luria in Turin, Italy to an influential Italian Sephardi Jewish family. His parents were Davide and Ester (Sacerdote) Luria. He attended the medical school at the University of Turin studying with Giuseppe Levi. There, he met two other future Nobel laureates: Rita Levi-Montalcini and Renato Dulbecco. He obtained his M. D. summa cum laude in 1935.

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

Where the record meets the 8 of Spades

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Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, K♣, so it adds no further cards to the path.

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

Strategic and powerful thinking

8♠ — Karma — Environment, fixed to the K♣, from the published 8 of Spades meaning

He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses.

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

Also on the record

  1. From 1936 to 1937, Luria served his required time in the Italian army as a medical officer.
  2. He then took classes in radiology at the University of Rome.
  3. Here, he was introduced to Max Delbrück's theories on the gene as a molecule and began to formulate methods for testing genetic theory with the bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria.
  4. In 1938, he received a fellowship to study in the United States, where he intended to work with Delbrück.

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FAQ

What is Salvador E. Luria's birth card?
The King of Clubs. August 13 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 Salvador E. Luria's dates come from?
Birth date 1912-08-13 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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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 393) + Wikidata CC0 (Q205667) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Salvador Luria). Birth date 1912-08-13 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).