Stanley Cohen's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

In the record

Stanley Cohen (November 17, 1922 – February 5, 2020) was an American biochemist who, along with Rita Levi-Montalcini, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for the isolation of nerve growth factor and the discovery of epidermal growth factor. The birth-card coordinate for November 17 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1986 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1986 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of growth factors

The 3 of Clubs coordinate

Stanley Cohen's birthday maps to the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). 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 Stanley Cohen. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move an idea across more than one channel without abandoning the one that needs depth.

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Stanley Cohen in the public record

Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 17, 1922. He was the son of Fannie (née Feitel) and Louis Cohen, a tailor. His parents were Jewish immigrants. Cohen received his bachelor's degree in 1943 from Brooklyn College, where he had double-majored in chemistry and biology. After working as a bacteriologist at a milk processing plant to earn money, he received his Master of Arts in zoology from Oberlin College in 1945. He earned a doctorate from the department of biochemistry about the metabolism of earthworms at the University of Michigan in 1948. His first academic employment was at the University of Colorado studying the metabolism of premature babies. In 1952 he moved to Washington University in St.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Clubs

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Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly

Cohen received his bachelor's degree in 1943 from Brooklyn College, where he had double-majored in chemistry and biology.

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

Also on the record

1. Louis, working first in the department of radiology, learning isotope methodology, and then in the department of zoology.
2. Working with Rita Levi-Montalcini, he isolated nerve growth factor.
3. He later isolated a protein that could accelerate incisor eruption and eyelid opening in newborn mice, which was renamed epidermal growth factor.
4. He continued research on cellular growth factors after joining the faculty of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1959.

Other laureates with this card

• Angus Deaton — 2015 Economic Sciences
• Charles Nicolle — 1928 Physiology or Medicine
• David J. Thouless — 2016 Physics
• Donald A. Glaser — 1960 Physics
• Elias Canetti — 1981 Literature
• Eugene Wigner — 1963 Physics
• Frances H. Arnold — 2018 Chemistry
• Hamilton O. Smith — 1978 Physiology or Medicine
• Hans Spemann — 1935 Physiology or Medicine
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — 1913 Physics
• Henri Becquerel — 1903 Physics
• Jean Dausset — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
• 14 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Stanley Cohen's birth card?

The 3 of Clubs. November 17 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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