Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Shinya Yamanaka's Birth Card: The 7 of Diamonds
The Skeptical Investor
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Shinya Yamanaka (山中 伸弥, Yamanaka Shin'ya; born September 4, 1962) is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. The birth-card coordinate for September 4 is the 7 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2012 Physiology or Medicine prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 2012 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent
2012 — The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
“for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”
Shared with Sir John B. Gurdon (7♦). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/2.
226 other Physiology or Medicine laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The 7 of Diamonds coordinate
Shinya Yamanaka's birthday maps to the 7 of Diamonds (The Skeptical Investor). 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 Shinya Yamanaka. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You look at worth without reducing it to the account balance.
Shinya Yamanaka in the public record
He is a professor and the director emeritus of the Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application, Kyoto University; as well as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California, and a professor of anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). He received the 2010 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the biomedicine category, the 2011 Wolf Prize in Medicine with Rudolf Jaenisch, and the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize together with Linus Torvalds. In 2012, he and John Gurdon were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells. In 2013, he was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Shinya Yamanaka (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 5 of Spades
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 Shinya Yamanaka, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Shinya Yamanaka's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- J♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- K♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- K♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
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.
Quick thinking and mental flexibility
He received the 2010 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the biomedicine category, the 2011 Wolf Prize in Medicine with Rudolf Jaenisch, and the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize together with Linus Torvalds.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: medicine.
Other laureates with this card
- Alan MacDiarmid — 2000 Chemistry
- Christian de Duve — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
- Clive W.J. Granger — 2003 Economic Sciences
- Cordell Hull — 1945 Peace
- David M. Lee — 1996 Physics
- David W.C. MacMillan — 2021 Chemistry
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — 1964 Chemistry
- Frederick Reines — 1995 Physics
- Igor Y. Tamm — 1958 Physics
- Johannes V. Jensen — 1944 Literature
- Lord Todd — 1957 Chemistry
- Maria Ressa — 2021 Peace
- 11 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Shinya Yamanaka's birth card?
- The 7 of Diamonds. September 4 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 Shinya Yamanaka's dates come from?
- Birth date 1962-09-04 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).
Get the $9 Deep Dive
The Deep Dive is a written card report for your own birthday — not a Nobel reading.
Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 875) + Wikidata CC0 (Q80917) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Shinya Yamanaka). Birth date 1962-09-04 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).