Chemist
William E. Moerner
American chemist who was the first to detect a single molecule optically, and a Nobel laureate.
William Esco Moerner, also known as W. E. Moerner, is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist with current work in the biophysics and imaging of single molecules. He is credited with achieving the first optical detection and spectroscopy of a single molecule in condensed phases, along with his postdoc, Lothar Kador. Optical study of single molecules has subsequently become a widely used single-molecule experiment in chemistry, physics and biology. In 2014, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Born
- 1953-06-24, Pleasanton, USAA Wednesday
- At birth
- Sun in Cancer, Moon in Sagittarius
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1953-06-24, Pleasanton, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Los_Angelesthe zone used then
America/Los_AngelesThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 2°56′ | Direct |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 3°23′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Cancer | 28°13′ | Direct |
| Venus | Taurus | 17°16′ | Direct |
| Mars | Cancer | 7°04′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 10°43′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Libra | 20°33′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Cancer | 17°46′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Libra | 21°07′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 21°25′ | Direct |
William E. Moerner 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 William E. Moerner 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.