Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
William C. Campbell's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs
The Collaborative Builder
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
William Cecil Campbell (born 28 June 1930) is an Irish and American microbiologist known for his work in discovering a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworms, for which he was jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The birth-card coordinate for June 28 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2015 Physiology or Medicine prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 2015 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites
2015 — The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
“for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites”
Shared with Satoshi Ōmura (3♦), Tu Youyou (A♥). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/4.
226 other Physiology or Medicine laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The 2 of Clubs coordinate
William C. Campbell's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative 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 William C. Campbell. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.
William C. Campbell in the public record
He helped to discover a class of drugs called avermectins, whose derivatives have been shown to have "extraordinary efficacy" in treating River blindness and Lymphatic filariasis, among other parasitic diseases affecting animals and humans. Campbell worked at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research 1957–1990, and has become a research fellow emeritus at Drew University. Campbell was born in Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland, in 1930, the third son of R. J. Campbell, a farm supplier. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin with James Desmond Smyth, graduating in 1952 with first class honours in Zoology. He then attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison on a Fulbright Scholarship, earning his PhD degree in 1957 for work on the liver fluke, a parasite affecting sheep. From 1957 to 1990 Campbell worked at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, and from 1984 to 1990 he was a Senior Scientist and Director with Assay Research and Development.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article William C. Campbell (scientist) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 2 of Clubs
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 William C. Campbell, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in William C. Campbell's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 2♣ — Birth Card: The Collaborative Builder
- K♥ — Karma — Environment: The Compassionate King
- A♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Truth Pioneer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- J♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
You think best with someone else in the room, and you still leave with a position of your own. You think best with others. Ideas solidify when you talk them through. You're the debater, the collaborator, the one who makes partnerships work through communication.
Campbell is best known for his work on parasitic diseases.
Paired on shared wording: best, work.
Also on the record
- He became a US citizen in 1964.
- One of his discoveries while at Merck was the fungicide thiabendazole, used to treat potato blight, historically a scourge of Ireland.
- Thiabendazole is also used to treat trichinosis in humans.
- Campbell is best known for his work on parasitic diseases.
Other laureates with this card
- Adam G. Riess — 2011 Physics
- Albert Claude — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
- Alexis Carrel — 1912 Physiology or Medicine
- Auguste Beernaert — 1909 Peace
- Brian Kobilka — 2012 Chemistry
- Charles B. Huggins — 1966 Physiology or Medicine
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
- Edmund S. Phelps — 2006 Economic Sciences
- Elfriede Jelinek — 2004 Literature
- F. Sherwood Rowland — 1995 Chemistry
- George Bernard Shaw — 1925 Literature
- George Wald — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
- 11 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is William C. Campbell's birth card?
- The 2 of Clubs. June 28 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?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do William C. Campbell's dates come from?
- Birth date 1930-06-28 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 916) + Wikidata CC0 (Q21061212) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (William C. Campbell (scientist)). Birth date 1930-06-28 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).