Sir Martin J. Evans's Birth Card: The King of Spades

In the record

Sir Martin John Evans FLSW (born 1 January 1941) is an English biologist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981. The birth-card coordinate for January 1 is the King of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2007 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2007 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells

The King of Spades coordinate

Sir Martin J. Evans's birthday maps to the King of Spades (The Master of Thought). 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 Sir Martin J. Evans. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the hard call without pretending you have no interior.

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Sir Martin J. Evans in the public record

He is also known, along with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies, for his work in the development of the knockout mouse and the related technology of gene targeting, a method of using embryonic stem cells to create specific gene modifications in mice. In 2007, the three shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their discovery and contribution to the efforts to develop new treatments for illnesses in humans. He won a major scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge at a time when advances in genetics were occurring there and became interested in biology and biochemistry. He then went to University College London where he learned laboratory skills supervised by Elizabeth Deuchar. In 1978, he moved to the Department of Genetics, at the University of Cambridge, and in 1980 began his collaboration with Matthew Kaufman. They explored the method of using blastocysts for the isolation of embryonic stem cells. After Kaufman left, Evans continued his work, upgrading his laboratory skills to the newest technologies, isolated the embryonic stem cell of the early mouse embryo and established it in a cell culture. He genetically modified and implanted it into adult female mice with the intent of creating genetically modified offspring, work for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2007.

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

Where the record meets the King of Spades

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In 2007, the three shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their discovery and contribution to the efforts to develop new treatments for illnesses in humans.

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Also on the record

1. In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
2. Today, genetically modified mice are considered vital for medical research.

Other laureates with this card

• Vernon L. Smith — 2002 Economic Sciences

FAQ

What is Sir Martin J. Evans's birth card?

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