Astrophysicist

Saul Perlmutter

American astrophysicist whose supernova survey found that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Since 2021, he has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

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Born
1959-09-22, Champaign, USAA Tuesday
At birth
Sun in Virgo, Moon in Gemini
Nationality
United States
Birth-time source
No birth time on record: Rodden X

Birth Chart

1959-09-22, Champaign, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/Chicagothe zone used then

The chart

Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunVirgo28°56′Direct
MoonGemini2°50′Direct
MercuryLibra2°56′Direct
VenusLeo29°51′Retrograde
MarsLibra10°53′Direct
JupiterScorpio27°47′Direct
SaturnCapricorn0°42′Direct
UranusLeo19°14′Direct
NeptuneScorpio5°20′Direct
PlutoVirgo4°47′Direct

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