Astronomer
Didier Queloz
Swiss astronomer who found the first exoplanet around a sunlike star as a doctoral student, and a Nobel laureate.
Didier Patrick Queloz is a Swiss astronomer. He is the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a professor of physics at ETH Zurich. Together with Michel Mayor in 1995, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi. For this discovery, he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with Mayor and Jim Peebles. In 2022, he is the founding director of the Center for the Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich.
- Born
- 1966-02-23, Geneva, SwitzerlandA Wednesday
- At birth
- Sun in Pisces, Moon in Aries
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1966-02-23, Geneva, Switzerland · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Zurichthe zone used then
Europe/ZurichThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 4°22′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aries | 7°15′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Pisces | 18°17′ | Direct |
| Venus | Capricorn | 29°22′ | Direct |
| Mars | Pisces | 19°01′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 21°21′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Pisces | 17°58′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Virgo | 18°09′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 22°10′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Virgo | 17°29′ | Retrograde |
Didier Queloz 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 Didier Queloz 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.