Victor Ambros's Birth Card: The 4 of Diamonds

In the record

Victor Robert Ambros (born December 1, 1953) is an American developmental biologist of Polish descent, who discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA). The birth-card coordinate for December 1 is the 4 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2024 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2024 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation

The 4 of Diamonds coordinate

Victor Ambros's birthday maps to the 4 of Diamonds (The Financial Foundation Builder). 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 Victor Ambros. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.

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Victor Ambros in the public record

He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed both his undergraduate and doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ambros received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2024 for his research on microRNA. Ambros was born in New Hampshire. His father, Longin Ambros, attended Sigismund Augustus Gymnasium in Vilnius 1937-1939 and was a Polish World War II refugee. In 2026, Victor Ambros began applying for Polish citizenship. Victor grew up on a small dairy farm in Hartland, Vermont, in a family of eight children and attended Woodstock Union High School. From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ambros received a Bachelor of Science with a major in biology in 1975 and a Doctor of Philosophy in biology in 1979.

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

Where the record meets the 5 of Spades

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Victor Ambros, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

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He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: medical.

Also on the record

1. His doctoral supervisor was David Baltimore, a 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
2. Ambros continued his research at MIT as the first postdoctoral fellow in the lab of future Nobel laureate H.
3. Robert Horvitz.
4. Ambros became a faculty member at Harvard University in 1984.

Other laureates with this card

• Abhijit Banerjee — 2019 Economic Sciences
• Aleksandr M. Prokhorov — 1964 Physics
• Amartya Sen — 1998 Economic Sciences
• Derek Walcott — 1992 Literature
• Drew Weissman — 2023 Physiology or Medicine
• Finn E. Kydland — 2004 Economic Sciences
• Frank Wilczek — 2004 Physics
• Frédéric Joliot — 1935 Chemistry
• Georges J.F. Köhler — 1984 Physiology or Medicine
• Gertrude B. Elion — 1988 Physiology or Medicine
• Henrik Dam — 1943 Physiology or Medicine
• Hideki Yukawa — 1949 Physics
• 22 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Victor Ambros's birth card?

The 4 of Diamonds. December 1 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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