Fritz Strassmann

Air takes five of his ten planets, with two apiece in earth and water and a single one in fire, and six of the ten are mutable with only one cardinal. The element that would charge at a thing is down to one planet. The record calls Strassmann a co-discoverer of nuclear fission, and says he refused to join Nazi organisations and hid a Jewish friend in his flat.

The Sun sits on the third degree of Pisces, the sign that holds no fixed edge of its own, while Mercury, Venus and Jupiter spread across twenty two degrees of Aquarius, which stands outside the arrangement it finds. His Moon sits on the second degree of Virgo at noon, with the sign before it still possible, Leo earlier. For a chemist whose record is a discovery and two refusals, speech and taste both sitting in the detached sign, and both retrograde, is the structure to start from.

Uranus is tied to the two of them. The Sun sits a fifth of the way round from it at nine hundredths of a degree, which is the angle of independence without a fight: being unusual and untroubled by it. Venus sits sixty degrees from it at fifteen hundredths, independent affection and unconventional arrangements that work. In the record of a man who would not join the organisations everybody around him was joining, two contacts to the planet of refusal inside a sixth of a degree is the most the chart can say and it says it plainly.

He died at Mainz on 22 April 1980, at seventy eight. Saturn stood square his natal Uranus at thirteen hundredths of a degree that day, which puts the planet of limit on the exact contact the refusals ran through. Venus stood conjunct his natal Pluto at three tenths and the Sun sixty degrees from its own natal place at half a degree. The Moon was at its first quarter and fifty three per cent lit, a phase that acts decisively and often has to break something to do it.