Biochemist
Aziz Sancar
Turkish American biochemist who mapped how cells repair damaged DNA, and a Nobel laureate.
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.
- Born
- 1946-09-08, Savur district, TurkeyA Sunday
- At birth
- Sun in Virgo, Moon in Aquarius
- Nationality
- Northern Cyprus
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1946-09-08, Savur district, Turkey · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Istanbulthe zone used then
Europe/IstanbulThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 15°06′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aquarius | 8°00′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Virgo | 9°00′ | Direct |
| Venus | Scorpio | 1°19′ | Direct |
| Mars | Libra | 19°08′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Libra | 26°39′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Leo | 4°25′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Gemini | 21°37′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Libra | 7°29′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 12°24′ | Direct |
Aziz Sancar 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 Aziz Sancar 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.