Thomas C. Südhof's Birth Card: The 9 of Hearts

In the record

Thomas Christian Südhof (born December 22, 1955), is a German-American biochemist known for his study of synaptic transmission. The birth-card coordinate for December 22 is the 9 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2013 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2013 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells

The 9 of Hearts coordinate

Thomas C. Südhof's birthday maps to the 9 of Hearts (The Compassionate Idealist). 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 Thomas C. Südhof. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay kind without picking up what is not yours.

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Thomas C. Südhof in the public record

Currently, he is a professor in the school of medicine in the department of molecular and cellular physiology, and by courtesy in neurology, and in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. Südhof, James Rothman and Randy Schekman are the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates for their work on vesicle trafficking. A German native, Südhof was born in Göttingen in 1955. He spent his childhood in Göttingen and Hannover. He studied music in his youth, specifically the bassoon, and has credited his bassoon instructor, Herbert Tauscher, as his "most influential teacher". He was a graduate from the Hannover Waldorf School in 1975. Südhof studied medicine at the RWTH Aachen University, Harvard University, and then the University of Göttingen. In Göttingen Südhof worked on his doctoral thesis, in which he described the structure and function of chromaffin cells, at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in the lab of Victor P.

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

Where the record meets the Jack of Clubs

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Ability to inspire intellectual breakthroughs

Currently, he is a professor in the school of medicine in the department of molecular and cellular physiology, and by courtesy in neurology, and in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University.

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

Also on the record

1. Whittaker.
2. In 1982, he received his MD in medical science (Dr.med.) from the University of Göttingen.
3. He was born in an anthroposophical family, but has left anthroposophy since his youth.
4. After a brief postdoctoral fellowship in Whittaker's lab, Südhof moved to the United States in 1983, where he began postdoctoral training in the department of molecular genetics at the University of Texas Health Science Center (now the UT Southwestern Medical Center) in Dallas, Texas, under the supervision of Michael Stuart Brown and Joseph L.

Other laureates with this card

• E. M. Purcell — 1952 Physics
• Ernest Rutherford — 1908 Chemistry
• Frank B. Kellogg — 1929 Peace
• Henri Moissan — 1906 Chemistry
• Jacobus H. van 't Hoff — 1901 Chemistry
• Keffer Hartline — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
• Lars Peter Hansen — 2013 Economic Sciences
• M. Stanley Whittingham — 2019 Chemistry
• Richard Stone — 1984 Economic Sciences
• Simon van der Meer — 1984 Physics
• The Svedberg — 1926 Chemistry
• Tsung-Dao Lee — 1957 Physics

FAQ

What is Thomas C. Südhof's birth card?

The 9 of Hearts. December 22 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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