Chemist
Ryōji Noyori
Asymmetric hydrogenation, which lets you make one mirror image of a drug and not the other.
Ryōji Noyori is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Noyori shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions.
- Born
- 1938-09-03, Ashiya, JapanA Saturday
- At birth
- Sun in Virgo, Moon in Sagittarius
- Nationality
- Japan
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1938-09-03, Ashiya, Japan · time unknown, noon chart
Asia/Tokyothe zone used then
Asia/TokyoThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 9°57′ | Direct |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 25°18′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Leo | 29°59′ | Retrograde |
| Venus | Libra | 26°02′ | Direct |
| Mars | Leo | 26°59′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 25°36′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Aries | 17°05′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Taurus | 17°46′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Virgo | 20°28′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 0°46′ | Direct |
Ryōji Noyori 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 Ryōji Noyori 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.