Susumu Tonegawa's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds

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Susumu Tonegawa (利根川 進, Tonegawa Susumu; September 5, 1939 – July 11, 2026) was a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity. The birth-card coordinate for September 5 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1987 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1987 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity

The 6 of Diamonds coordinate

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Susumu Tonegawa in the public record

Although he won the Nobel Prize for his work in immunology, Tonegawa was a molecular biologist by training and, following his Nobel Prize win, changed fields to neuroscience, examining the molecular, cellular and neuronal basis of memory formation and retrieval. Tonegawa was born in Nagoya, Japan, and attended Hibiya High School in Tokyo. While a student at Kyoto University, Tonegawa became fascinated with operon theory after reading papers by François Jacob and Jacques Monod, whom he credits in part with inspiring his interest in molecular biology. Tonegawa graduated from Kyoto University in 1963 and, due to limited options for molecular biology study in Japan at the time, moved to the University of California, San Diego, to do his doctorate study under Dr. Masaki Hayashi. He received his Ph.D. in 1968. Tonegawa conducted post-doctoral work at the Salk Institute in San Diego in the laboratory of Renato Dulbecco. With encouragement from Dr.

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Susumu Tonegawa (利根川 進, Tonegawa Susumu; September 5, 1939 – July 11, 2026) was a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity.

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Also on the record

1. Dulbecco, Tonegawa moved to the Basel Institute for Immunology in Basel, Switzerland, in 1971, where he transitioned from molecular biology into immunology studies and carried out his landmark immunology studies.
2. In 1981, Tonegawa became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
3. In 1994, he was appointed the first Director of the MIT Center for Learning and Memory, which developed under his guidance into The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.
4. Tonegawa resigned his directorship in 2006 and served as a Picower Professor of Neuroscience and Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

Other laureates with this card

• Ben R. Mottelson — 1975 Physics
• Carl von Ossietzky — 1935 Peace
• Carlos Saavedra Lamas — 1936 Peace
• Carol W. Greider — 2009 Physiology or Medicine
• Charles J. Pedersen — 1987 Chemistry
• David J. Gross — 2004 Physics
• Elinor Ostrom — 2009 Economic Sciences
• J. Robin Warren — 2005 Physiology or Medicine
• James M. Buchanan Jr. — 1986 Economic Sciences
• James P. Allison — 2018 Physiology or Medicine
• Jennifer A. Doudna — 2020 Chemistry
• Johannes Stark — 1919 Physics
• 15 more laureates share this card.

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The 6 of Diamonds. September 5 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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