Tim Hunt's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds

In the record

Sir Richard Timothy Hunt (born 19 February 1943) is a British biochemist and molecular physiologist. The birth-card coordinate for February 19 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2001 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2001 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle

The 6 of Diamonds coordinate

Tim Hunt's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). 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 Tim Hunt. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.

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Tim Hunt in the public record

He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells. While studying fertilized sea urchin eggs in the early 1980s, Hunt discovered cyclin, a protein that cyclically aggregates and is depleted during cell division cycles. Hunt was born on 19 February 1943 in Neston, Cheshire, to Richard William Hunt, a lecturer in palaeography in Liverpool, and Kit Rowland, daughter of a timber merchant. After the death of both his parents, Hunt found his father had worked at Bush House, then the headquarters of BBC World Service radio, most likely in intelligence, although it is not known what he actually did. In 1945, Richard became Keeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, and the family relocated to Oxford. At the age of eight, Hunt was accepted into the Dragon School, where he first developed an interest in biology thanks to his science teacher, the German educator Gerd Sommerhoff. When he was fourteen, he moved to Magdalen College School, Oxford, becoming even more interested in science and studying subjects such as chemistry and zoology.

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

Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs

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After returning to Cambridge, he again began work with Tony Hunter and Richard Jackson, who had discovered the RNA strand used to start haemoglobin synthesis.

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Also on the record

1. In 1961, he was accepted into Clare College, Cambridge, to study Natural Sciences, graduating in 1964 and immediately beginning work in the university Department of Biochemistry under Asher Korner.
2. There, he worked with scientists such as Louis Reichardt and Tony Hunter.
3. A 1965 talk by Vernon Ingram interested him in haemoglobin synthesis, and at a Greek conference in 1966 on the subject, he persuaded the haematologist and geneticist Irving London to allow him to work in his laboratory at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, staying from July to October 1966.
4. His PhD was supervised by Asher Korner and focused on haemoglobin synthesis in intact rabbit reticulocytes (immature red blood cells), and was awarded in 1968.

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.

FAQ

What is Tim Hunt's birth card?

The 6 of Diamonds. February 19 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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Where do Tim Hunt's dates come from?

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