William G. Kaelin Jr's Birth Card: The 10 of Hearts

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William G. The birth-card coordinate for November 23 is the 10 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2019 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2019 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability

The 10 of Hearts coordinate

William G. Kaelin Jr's birthday maps to the 10 of Hearts (The Community Heart). 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 G. Kaelin Jr. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room.

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William G. Kaelin Jr in the public record

Kaelin Jr. (born November 23, 1957) is an American Nobel laureate physician-scientist. He is a professor of medicine at Harvard University and the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute where his laboratory studies tumor suppressor proteins. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the AACR Princess Takamatsu Award . In 2019 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in with Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their work on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. Kaelin was born in New York City on November 23, 1957, to William George and Nancy Priscilla (Horn) Kaelin. Kaelin earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and chemistry at Duke University, and stayed to attain an MD, graduating in 1982.

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

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Kaelin Jr. (born November 23, 1957) is an American Nobel laureate physician-scientist.

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

Also on the record

1. He did his residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and his fellowship in oncology at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
2. After deciding as an undergraduate that research was not a strength of his, at DFCI he did research in the lab of David Livingston, where he found success in the study of retinoblastoma.
3. In 1992, he set up his own lab at DFCI down the hall from Livingston's where he investigated hereditary forms of cancer such as von Hippel–Lindau disease.
4. He became a professor at Harvard Medical School in 2002.

Other laureates with this card

• Arthur B. McDonald — 2015 Physics
• Douglas Diamond — 2022 Economic Sciences
• Esther Duflo — 2019 Economic Sciences
• Grazia Deledda — 1926 Literature
• Heinrich Böll — 1972 Literature
• Hermann J. Muller — 1946 Physiology or Medicine
• Hjalmar Branting — 1921 Peace
• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — 1910 Physics
• Klaus Hasselmann — 2021 Physics
• Martin Ryle — 1974 Physics
• Maurice Maeterlinck — 1911 Literature
• Milton Friedman — 1976 Economic Sciences
• 5 more laureates share this card.

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What is William G. Kaelin Jr's birth card?

The 10 of Hearts. November 23 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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