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André Lwoff

André Lwoff (born May 8, 1902, Ainay-le-Château, France; died 1994), was a French microbiologist. Lwoff's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Leeuwenhoek Medal and Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer.

André Lwoff’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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André Lwoff’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

What André’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on A (1) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 6: movement against care.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

André’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Blush · Soft pink

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 1902, 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 André apart

The Marjory Stephenson Prize came in 1957, when André Lwoff was 55.

Study took André Lwoff to Pasteur Institute and Lycée Voltaire.

On the family side, André Lwoff was born to Marija Jakovlevna Simonovič-L'vova and married Marguerite Lwoff.

Wikipedia files André Lwoff under Presidents of the International Union of Microbiological Societies, Leeuwenhoek Medal winners and People from Allier.

Enrique Iglesias (1975) and David Attenborough (1926) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Pasteur Institute and Lycée Voltaire
Awards
Marjory Stephenson Prize (1957), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1965) and Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (1964)
Citizenship
France
Languages
French
Wikipedia editions
55

What the chart says

André, according to the stars

Core essence

André is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of André is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How André wants to be loved

André wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How André creates

How André makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. André creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: André 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. André is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means André is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from André's birth date. Working below.

Where André sits

Six lines

André’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
André

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
André

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
André

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
André

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
André

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
André

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to André Lwoff

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ainay-le-Château 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 Ainay-le-Château that night

Computed for 46.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Ainay-le-Château at 9 p.m. that evening: Phecda of Ursa Major, within 7.9° of the exact zenith.

Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 46.7°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −43.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Ainay-le-Château on any night.

The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 15° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Ainay-le-Château, France

The death is recorded at Paris, Grand Paris in 1994.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for André Lwoff: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual André's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Taurus · 1 unaspected planet · No Water planets

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.

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André Lwoff at a glance

Taurus Sun

Try rushing a Taurus. Go on.

André Lwoff's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 8, 1902, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

André Lwoff was born on May 8, 1902, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

André Lwoff's birth date, May 8, 1902, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in André’s chart

André’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 2° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.1° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.5° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.6° orbUranus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.1° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.2° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.3° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 3.3° orbSun in Taurus · 16°57′☉16°Moon in Taurus · 24°38′☽24°Mercury in Taurus · 27°56′☿27°Venus in Aries · 1°15′♀1°Mars in Taurus · 8°13′♂8°Jupiter in Aquarius · 15°59′♃15°Saturn in Capricorn · 27°48′ · retrograde♄℞27°Uranus in Sagittarius · 20°34′ · retrograde♅℞20°Neptune in Gemini · 29°36′♆29°Pluto in Gemini · 17°27′♇17°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 1.2° orb

    André’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.5° to 1.4° orb

    André’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune1.1° to 2.2° orb

    André’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus2.8° to 3.8° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn2.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto3.1° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 13.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.6° to 14.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

André’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 14°30′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 7°30′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAries 13°15′ (moves 0.66° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 4°32′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 9°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Sun 2.4°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 2.7°

André’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in André’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.

  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.8°

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André’s cards

Computed from May 8, 1902. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

André’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q223309 (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.

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The same André Lwoff at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

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Quick answers about André Lwoff’s chart

What zodiac sign was André Lwoff?
André Lwoff was a Taurus: born May 8, 1902, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was André Lwoff's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 8, 1902 birth.
What was André Lwoff's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was André Lwoff's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was André Lwoff's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was André Lwoff's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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