William P. Murphy's Birth Card: The 6 of Spades

In the record

William Parry Murphy Sr. (February 6, 1892 – October 9, 1987) was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anemia (specifically, pernicious anemia). The birth-card coordinate for February 6 is the 6 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1934 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1934 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia

The 6 of Spades coordinate

William P. Murphy's birthday maps to the 6 of Spades (The Responsible Mind). 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 P. Murphy. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You use what you have already walked through without requiring anyone else to be in pain for it to count.

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William P. Murphy in the public record

Murphy was born on February 6, 1892, at Stoughton, Wisconsin and moved to Condon, Oregon as a youth. His father, Thomas Francis Murphy, was a congregational minister of English and Irish heritage. His mother, Rosa Anna Parry, was of a Welsh landowning background. Murphy was educated at the public schools of Wisconsin and Oregon. He completed his A.B. degree in 1914 from the University of Oregon. He completed his M.D. in 1922 from Harvard Medical School. Murphy's later work in pernicious anemia would build on that of Whipple. In 1924, Whipple bled dogs to make them anemic (work inspired by war injury work), and then fed them various substances to gauge their improvement.

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

Where the record meets the 6 of Spades

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William Parry Murphy Sr. (February 6, 1892 – October 9, 1987) was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anemia (specifically, pernicious anemia).

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

Also on the record

1. He discovered that ingesting large amounts of liver seemed to restore anemia more quickly of all foods.
2. Minot and Whipple then set about to chemically isolate the curative substance.
3. These investigations showed that iron in the liver was responsible for curing anemia from bleeding, but meanwhile liver had been tried on people with pernicious anemia and some effect was seen there, also.
4. The active ingredient in this case, found serendipitously, was not iron, but rather a water-soluble extract containing a new substance.

Other laureates with this card

• Emily Greene Balch — 1946 Peace
• Nicholas Murray Butler — 1931 Peace
• Walther Bothe — 1954 Physics

FAQ

What is William P. Murphy's birth card?

The 6 of Spades. February 6 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 William P. Murphy's dates come from?

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