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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born April 1, 1933, Constantine, Algeria), aged 93, is a French physicist (1933-). Cohen-Tannoudji's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Charles Hard Townes Award and Three Physicists Prize.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Diplomat

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Claude in the U.S.?

#3044

US rank in 2025

~92,289

Americans share it since 1880

1920

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Claude’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

3 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily

White · Crimson · Moonlight white

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What the chart says

Claude, according to the stars

Core essence

Claude leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Claude is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Claude processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Claude needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Claude wants to be loved

Claude 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 Claude creates

How Claude makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Claude creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Claude is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Claude is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Claude channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Claude's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Claude sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Claude

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Claude

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Claude

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Claude

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Claude

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Claude

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji at a glance

Aries Sun

Impatient, and usually right to be.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 1, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

Water Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji was born on April 1, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

Life Path 3

Creative, loud, warm.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's birth date, April 1, 1933, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Claude’s chart

Claude’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.5° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.4° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.7° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 3.4° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.3° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 5.2° orbMars fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 6.4° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 6.7° orbSun in Aries · 11°19′11°Moon in Gemini · 22°09′22°Mercury in Pisces · 25°34′ · retrograde25°Venus in Aries · 6°06′Mars in Virgo · 1°34′ · retrogradeJupiter in Virgo · 15°30′ · retrograde15°Saturn in Aquarius · 13°59′13°Uranus in Aries · 22°39′22°Neptune in Virgo · 7°58′ · retrogradePluto in Cancer · 21°14′ · retrograde21°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableUranussquarePluto1.4° orb

    Claude’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.2° to 3.1° orb

    Claude’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto4.1° to 4.5° orb

    Claude’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus5.1° to 5.3° orb

    Claude’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.3° to 6.5° orb

    Claude’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune7.5° to 7.6° orb

    Claude’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 6.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.7° to 12.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 2.3° to 14.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 3.4° to 15.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ChironTaurus 25°24′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Claude building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • CeresPisces 16°52′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Claude is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.

  • ErosCapricorn 9°12′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Claude is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • HygieaSagittarius 0°04′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Claude is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.

  • Black Moon LilithGemini 7°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Claude that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron sextile Mercury 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.1°
  • Eros trine Neptune 1.2°
  • Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.4°
  • Hygiea square Mars 1.5°
  • Eros square Sun 2.1°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Claude’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. Mars7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. Neptune3 pts

    disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Claude is read as acting first and reflecting after.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Claude’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
  • Jupiter biquintile Uranus 1.1°
  • Venus biquintile Mars 1.5°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.5°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.7°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 1.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Claude’s cards

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The World

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The Radiant Diplomat

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

yin Water

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yin Wood

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Fire

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Claude’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190697, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Portrait by Studio Harcourt, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Claude Cohen-Tannoudji at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.

Quick answers about Claude Cohen-Tannoudji’s chart

How old is Claude Cohen-Tannoudji?
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is 93 years old, born April 1, 1933 in Constantine, Algeria.
What zodiac sign is Claude Cohen-Tannoudji?
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is an Aries: born April 1, 1933, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rooster.
What is Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 1, 1933 birth.
What time was Claude Cohen-Tannoudji born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the April 1, 1933 birth date.
What is Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 1, 1933 birth date.
Where is Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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