Thomas H. Weller's Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds

In the record

Thomas Huckle Weller (June 15, 1915 – August 23, 2008) was an American virologist. The birth-card coordinate for June 15 is the 2 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1954 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1954 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue

The 2 of Diamonds coordinate

Thomas H. Weller's birthday maps to the 2 of Diamonds (The Financial Partner). 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 H. Weller. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides.

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Thomas H. Weller in the public record

He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using a combination of human embryonic skin and muscle tissue. Weller was born and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated from Ann Arbor High School. He then went to the University of Michigan, where his father Carl Vernon Weller was a professor in the Department of Pathology. At Michigan, he studied medical zoology and received a B.S. and an M.S., with his masters thesis on fish parasites. In 1936, Weller entered Harvard Medical School, and in 1939 began working under John Franklin Enders, with whom he would later (along with Frederick Chapman Robbins) share the Nobel Prize. It was Enders who got Weller involved in researching viruses and tissue-culture techniques for determining infectious disease causes. Weller received his MD in 1940, and went to work at Children's Hospital in Boston. In 1942, during World War II, he entered the Army Medical Corps and was stationed at the Antilles Medical Laboratory in Puerto Rico, earning the rank of Major and heading the facility's Departments of Bacteriology, Virology and Parasitology.

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

Where the record meets the 6 of Clubs

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Natural teaching and mentoring ability

He then went to the University of Michigan, where his father Carl Vernon Weller was a professor in the Department of Pathology.

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

Also on the record

1. After the War, he returned to Children's Hospital in Boston, and it was there in 1947, that he rejoined Enders in the newly created Research Division of Infectious Diseases.
2. After several leading positions, in July 1954, he was appointed head of the Tropical Public Health Department at the Harvard School of Public Health.
3. Weller also served from 1953 to 1959 as director of the Commission on Parasitic Diseases of the American Armed Forces Epidemiological Board.
4. In addition to his work on polio, Weller also contributed to treating schistosomiasis, and Coxsackie viruses.

Other laureates with this card

• Aaron Klug — 1982 Chemistry
• Alain Aspect — 2022 Physics
• Allan M. Cormack — 1979 Physiology or Medicine
• Arvid Carlsson — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• Christiaan Eijkman — 1929 Physiology or Medicine
• D. Carleton Gajdusek — 1976 Physiology or Medicine
• Desmond Tutu — 1984 Peace
• Didier Queloz — 2019 Physics
• Douglass C. North — 1993 Economic Sciences
• Ferenc Krausz — 2023 Physics
• Glenn T. Seaborg — 1951 Chemistry
• Hans G. Dehmelt — 1989 Physics
• 16 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Thomas H. Weller's birth card?

The 2 of Diamonds. June 15 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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