Biologist
Craig Mello
Shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of RNA interference, at forty six.
Craig Cameron Mello is an American biologist and professor in the RNA Therapeutics Institute and Program for Molecular Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference. This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998. Mello has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000.
- Born
- 1960-10-18, New Haven, USAA Tuesday
- At birth
- Sun in Libra, Moon in Libra
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1960-10-18, New Haven, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 25°16′ | Direct |
| Moon | Libra | 2°25′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 19°45′ | Direct |
| Venus | Scorpio | 26°16′ | Direct |
| Mars | Cancer | 12°11′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 28°46′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 12°41′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Leo | 24°56′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 8°21′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Virgo | 7°26′ | Direct |
Craig Mello 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 Craig Mello 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.