Albert Fert
Albert Fert (born March 7, 1938, Carcassonne, France), aged 88, is a French physicist, Nobel laureate in physics. Fert's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Albert Fert’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Albert
Albert Fert’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Albert in the U.S.?
#614
US rank in 2025
~494,420
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1938, Albert came 37th among boys and 1,475th among girls, carried by 5,796 American boys and 26 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Albert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
11
Soul Urge · insight
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Albert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1938, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Albert apart
Albert Fert took the Jean-Ricard Prize in 1994, at 56.
Training came by way of Science Faculty of Paris and École Normale Supérieure.
On the family side, Albert Fert was born to Charles Fert.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Albert Fert: Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite, People from Carcassonne and Paris-Saclay University.
The same date carries David Baltimore. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Science Faculty of Paris and École Normale Supérieure
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2007), Japan Prize (2007) and Commander of the Legion of Honour (2012)
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French
- Wikipedia editions
- 78
What the chart says
Albert, according to the stars
Core essence
Albert feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Albert is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Albert is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Albert needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Albert wants to be loved
Albert wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Albert, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Albert creates
How Albert makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Albert creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Albert is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Albert is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Albert gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Albert's birth date. Working below.
Where Albert sits
Six lines
Albert’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Albert Fert
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Carcassonne on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Carcassonne that night
Computed for 43.22°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Carcassonne at 9 p.m. that evening: Talitha of Ursa Major, within 9.5° of the exact zenith.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 43.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −46.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Carcassonne on any night.
The Moon, 34% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Carcassonne, France
- Lives in
- Paris
Wikidata records Paris as Albert Fert's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Albert Fert: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Albert's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Pisces · 1 unaspected planet
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Albert Fert's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 7, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Albert Fert was born on March 7, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Albert Fert's birth date, March 7, 1938, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Albert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Albert Fert's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Albert Fert combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
Albert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.5° to 1.4° orb
Albert’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquarePluto1.2° to 2.0° orb
Albert’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunoppositionNeptune3.1° to 4.1° orb
Albert’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.4° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.6° to 5.5° orb
stableVenustrinePluto3.6° to 4.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.5° to 7.8° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Albert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 25°26′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 27°26′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 10°56′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 28°11′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 27°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.3°
- Chiron square Venus 1.5°
Albert’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Albert’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.8°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 2.0°
Born the same day as Albert
David Baltimore was born on March 7, 1938 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 43.2°N, the sky above Carcassonne stops at −46.8° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Albert
Other physicists
- David Gross1941
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji1933
- Brian David Josephson1940
- Heinrich Rohrer1933
- Sidney Altman1939
- John Hopfield1933
Born in France
- Marc Ladreit de LacharrièreFrench businessman
- Hubert de GivenchyFrench fashion designer
- Annie ErnauxFrench writer (born 1940)
- Philippe NoiretFrench actor
- Jean-Marie Gustave Le ClézioFrench writer and Nobel Prize winner (born 1940)
- Leslie CaronFrench and American actress and dancer (born 1931)
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Fellow Pisces suns
- Jorrel HatoDutch footballer (born 2006)
- Luka VuškovićCroatian association football player
- José Raul RangelMexican footballer (born 2000)
Born in Tiger years
- Julian BlackmonAmerican football defensive back
- Chris Rumph IIAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Dillon RadunzAmerican football offensive tackle
Also born on March 7
- Sanae Takaichi1961
- Rachel Weisz1970
- Bryan Cranston1956
- Laura Prepon1980
- Jenna Fischer1974
- Valentina Shevchenko1988
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Brandon WilliamsAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Bennedict MathurinCanadian basketball player (born 2002)
- Johni BroomeAmerican basketball player
Other Pisces Tiger charts
- Adam BaldwinAmerican actor
- James BluntEnglish singer-songwriter (born 1974)
- Kevin ConnollyAmerican actor
- Jonathan ChebanSelf proclaimed "Food God"
Other Steadfast Explorers
- BonoIrish singer
- Curtis T. McMullenAmerican mathematician and Fields medallist
- Alan BakerEnglish mathematician
- Herbert C. BrownAmerican chemist
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Steve HarveyAmerican television presenter, comedian, actor, and author
- Debby RyanAmerican singer and actress
- Chien-Shiung WuChinese-American physicist
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Albert’s cards
Computed from March 7, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Albert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q153219 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Eurobas, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Albert Fert at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Albert Fert.
Quick answers about Albert Fert’s chart
- How old is Albert Fert?
- Albert Fert is 88 years old, born March 7, 1938 in Carcassonne, France.
- What zodiac sign is Albert Fert?
- Albert Fert is a Pisces: born March 7, 1938, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is Albert Fert's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 7, 1938 birth.
- What is Albert Fert's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Albert Fert's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Albert Fert's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Albert Fert's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
