Physicist
Steven Chu
Cooled atoms with laser light, then ran the American energy department.
Steven Chu is an American physicist and former government official. He is a Nobel laureate and was the 12th U.S. secretary of energy. He is currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. He is known for his research at the University of California, Berkeley, and his research at Bell Laboratories and Stanford University regarding the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, for which he shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips.
- Born
- 1948-02-28, St. Louis, USAA Saturday
- At birth
- Sun in Pisces, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1948-02-28, St. Louis, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Chicagothe zone used then
America/ChicagoThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 9°04′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 3°46′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 22°34′ | Retrograde |
| Venus | Aries | 20°06′ | Direct |
| Mars | Leo | 23°40′ | Retrograde |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 25°43′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Leo | 17°42′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Gemini | 22°06′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Libra | 12°27′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 13°12′ | Retrograde |
Steven Chu 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 Steven Chu 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.