Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Tasuku Honjo's Birth Card: The King of Clubs
The Master Leader
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
Tasuku Honjo (本庶 佑, Honjo Tasuku; born January 27, 1942) is a Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist. The birth-card coordinate for January 27 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2018 Physiology or Medicine prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 2018 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation
2018 — The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
“for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”
Shared with James P. Allison (6♦). 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 King of Clubs coordinate
Tasuku Honjo'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 Tasuku Honjo. 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.
Tasuku Honjo in the public record
He won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and is best known for his identification of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1). He is also known for his molecular identification of cytokines IL-4 and IL-5, as well as the discovery of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) that is essential for class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation. He was elected as an international member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in 2001, a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2003, and as a member of the Japan Academy in 2005. In 2018, he was awarded a Nobel Prize with James P. Allison. He and Allison together had won the 2014 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science for the same achievement.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Tasuku Honjo (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the King of Clubs
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Cards in Tasuku Honjo's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♣ — Birth Card: The Master Leader
- 8♠ — Karma — Environment: The Powerful Mind
- 2♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Skeptical Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- J♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 6♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Nurturing Creator
- 2♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Financial Partner
- 8♦ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Businessman
- K♠ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Master of Thought
- 3♥ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Creative Heart
- A♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Creative Pioneer
- Q♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Completed Mind
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.
Clear thinking and decisive action
Tasuku Honjo (本庶 佑, Honjo Tasuku; born January 27, 1942) is a Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: scientist.
Other laureates with this card
- A. Michael Spence — 2001 Economic Sciences
- Albert Camus — 1957 Literature
- Barry C. Barish — 2017 Physics
- Bertram N. Brockhouse — 1994 Physics
- Bruce Merrifield — 1984 Chemistry
- Carl Cori — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
- Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
- Daniel Bovet — 1957 Physiology or Medicine
- Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
- Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
- François Jacob — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
- Frederick Sanger — 1958 Chemistry; 1980 Chemistry
- 28 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Tasuku Honjo's birth card?
- The King of Clubs. January 27 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 Tasuku Honjo's dates come from?
- Birth date 1942-01-27 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 959) + Wikidata CC0 (Q2395341) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Tasuku Honjo). Birth date 1942-01-27 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).