Werner Arber's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades

In the record

Werner Arber (born 3 June 1929 in Gränichen, Aargau) is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. The birth-card coordinate for June 3 is the Ace of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1978 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1978 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics

The Ace of Spades coordinate

Werner Arber's birthday maps to the Ace of Spades (The Truth Pioneer). 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 Werner Arber. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard.

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Werner Arber in the public record

Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. Their work would lead to the development of recombinant DNA technology. Arber studied chemistry and physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich from 1949 to 1953. Late in 1953, he took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the University of Geneva, in time left the electron microscope, went on to research bacteriophages and write his dissertation on defective lambda prophage mutants. In his Nobel Autobiography, he writes: In the summer of 1956, we learned about experiments made by Larry Morse and Esther and Joshua Lederberg on the lambda-mediated transduction (gene transfer from one bacterial strain to another by a bacteriophage serving as vector) of bacterial determinants for galactose fermentation. Since these investigators had encountered defective lysogenic strains among their transductants, we felt that such strains should be included in the collection of lambda prophage mutants under study in our laboratory. Very rapidly, thanks to the stimulating help by Jean Weigle and Grete Kellenberger, this turned out to be extremely fruitful. ... This was the end of my career as an electron microscopist and in chosing [sic] genetic and physiological approaches I became a molecular geneticist.

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

Where the record meets the 2 of Clubs

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Natural partnership and team-building ability

Arber studied chemistry and physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich from 1949 to 1953.

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

Also on the record

1. Arber received his doctorate in 1958 from the University of Geneva.
2. He then worked at the University of Southern California in phage genetics with Gio ("Joe") Bertani starting in the summer of 1958.
3. Late in 1959 he accepted an offer to return to Geneva at the beginning of 1960, but only after spending "several very fruitful weeks" at each of the laboratories of Gunther Stent (University of California, Berkeley), Joshua Lederberg and Esther Lederberg (Stanford University) and Salvador Luria (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
4. Arber notes that it was in 1963, while he was a researcher in Stent's Berkeley lab, when experiments produced the first evidence that modification in E. coli B and K is brought about by nucleotide methylation.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred G. Gilman — 1994 Physiology or Medicine
• Arthur L. Schawlow — 1981 Physics
• Eric Betzig — 2014 Chemistry
• Gabriela Mistral — 1945 Literature
• Georg von Békésy — 1961 Physiology or Medicine
• Gerald M. Edelman — 1972 Physiology or Medicine
• Henryk Sienkiewicz — 1905 Literature
• Léon Jouhaux — 1951 Peace
• Makoto Kobayashi — 2008 Physics
• Myron Scholes — 1997 Economic Sciences
• Otto Loewi — 1936 Physiology or Medicine
• Sydney Brenner — 2002 Physiology or Medicine
• 4 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Werner Arber's birth card?

The Ace of Spades. June 3 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 Werner Arber's dates come from?

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