Geneticist
Mario Capecchi
Italian American geneticist who lived as a street child in wartime Italy.
Mario Ramberg Capecchi is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and a co-awardee of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method to create mice in which a specific gene is turned off, known as knockout mice. He shared the prize with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies. Capecchi is Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
- Born
- 1937-10-06, Verona, ItalyA Wednesday
- At birth
- Sun in Libra, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1937-10-06, Verona, Italy · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Romethe zone used then
Europe/RomeThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 12°46′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 5°08′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Virgo | 26°53′ | Direct |
| Venus | Virgo | 13°44′ | Direct |
| Mars | Capricorn | 4°05′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 18°16′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Aries | 0°50′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Taurus | 12°48′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Virgo | 19°35′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Cancer | 29°59′ | Direct |
Mario Capecchi 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 Mario Capecchi 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.