Astrophysicist
Michel Mayor
Swiss astronomer who found the first planet orbiting a sunlike star, in 1995, and a Nobel laureate.
Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory of Geneva. He is co-laureate of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Jim Peebles and Didier Queloz, and the winner of the 2010 Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize and the 2015 Kyoto Prize.
- Born
- 1942-01-12, Lausanne, SwitzerlandA Monday
- At birth
- Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1942-01-12, Lausanne, Switzerland · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Zurichthe zone used then
Europe/ZurichThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 21°37′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 20°34′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 4°37′ | Direct |
| Venus | Aquarius | 21°10′ | Direct |
| Mars | Taurus | 0°15′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 12°20′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Taurus | 21°44′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Taurus | 26°33′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Virgo | 29°50′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 4°55′ | Retrograde |
Michel Mayor 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 Michel Mayor 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.