Neurologist
Stanley B. Prusiner
American neurologist who proposed the prion, an infectious protein with no genetic material, and was doubted for a decade.
Stanley Ben Prusiner is an American neurologist and biochemist. He is the founding director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (IND) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein, a scientific theory considered by many as a heretical idea when first proposed. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for research on prion diseases developed by him and his team of experts beginning in the early 1970s.
- Born
- 1942-05-28, Des Moines, USAA Thursday
- At birth
- Sun in Gemini, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1942-05-28, Des Moines, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Chicagothe zone used then
America/ChicagoThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 6°43′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 15°05′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Gemini | 25°18′ | Direct |
| Venus | Aries | 25°05′ | Direct |
| Mars | Cancer | 19°51′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 27°08′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Gemini | 2°33′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Gemini | 0°47′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Virgo | 27°07′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 3°50′ | Direct |
Stanley B. Prusiner 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 Stanley B. Prusiner 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.