Geologist
Walter Alvarez
Found the iridium layer that showed an asteroid killed the dinosaurs.
Walter Alvarez is an American professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. He and his father, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, developed the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact.
- Born
- 1940-10-03, Berkeley, USAA Thursday
- At birth
- Sun in Libra, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Birth Chart
1940-10-03, Berkeley, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Los_Angelesthe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 10°26′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 12°58′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 0°27′ | Direct |
| Venus | Leo | 26°35′ | Direct |
| Mars | Virgo | 28°51′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 14°16′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Taurus | 13°35′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Taurus | 25°42′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Virgo | 25°49′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 4°06′ | Direct |
Walter Alvarez 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 Walter Alvarez 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.
