Cell biologist
Randy Schekman
American cell biologist of vesicle traffic, and a public critic of the leading science journals.
Randy Wayne Schekman is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust, launching in 2012. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.
- Born
- 1948-12-30, Saint Paul, USAA Thursday
- At birth
- Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Capricorn
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Birth Chart
1948-12-30, Saint Paul, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Chicagothe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 8°58′ | Direct |
| Moon | Capricorn | 13°03′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 19°20′ | Direct |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 12°59′ | Direct |
| Mars | Capricorn | 26°05′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 10°04′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Virgo | 6°01′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Gemini | 28°06′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Libra | 15°05′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 16°09′ | Retrograde |
Randy Schekman 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 Randy Schekman 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.
