Astronomer
Joseph Hooton Taylor
The binary pulsar work, and a Nobel Prize shared with his student.
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics with Russell Alan Hulse "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". This was the first indirect detection of gravitational waves, later directly detected by Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss.
- Born
- 1941-03-29, Philadelphia, USAA Saturday
- At birth
- Sun in Aries, Moon in Aries
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1941-03-29, Philadelphia, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aries | 8°36′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aries | 28°54′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Pisces | 11°13′ | Direct |
| Venus | Aries | 3°18′ | Direct |
| Mars | Capricorn | 27°23′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 16°45′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Taurus | 13°01′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Taurus | 23°33′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Virgo | 25°59′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 2°05′ | Retrograde |
Joseph Hooton Taylor 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 Joseph Hooton Taylor 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.