Engineer
Akira Yoshino
Japanese engineer who built the first commercially viable lithium ion battery, and a Nobel laureate.
Akira Yoshino is a Japanese chemist. He is a fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation and a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya. He created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery, which became used widely in cellular phones and notebook computers. Yoshino was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and John B. Goodenough.
- Born
- 1948-01-30, Suita, JapanA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Libra
- Nationality
- Japan
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Birth Chart
1948-01-30, Suita, Japan · time unknown, noon chart
Asia/Tokyothe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 9°08′ | Direct |
| Moon | Libra | 2°41′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 25°58′ | Direct |
| Venus | Pisces | 14°42′ | Direct |
| Mars | Virgo | 4°33′ | Retrograde |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 21°00′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Leo | 20°02′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Gemini | 22°30′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Libra | 12°55′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 13°52′ | Retrograde |
Akira Yoshino is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Akira Yoshino was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.
