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, Chinese zodiac is Water Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Claude
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
In 1933, 1,253 American boys and 11 girls were registered Claude — 131st among boys and 2,568th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Claude’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Claude’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1933, 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 Claude apart
The Paul Langevin Award came in 1963, when Claude Cohen-Tannoudji was 30.
The schooling ran through Les Houches School of Physics and Science Faculty of Paris.
On Wikipedia the categories read Jewish French scientists, African Sephardi Jews and Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff.
Wangari Muta Maathai (1940) and Milan Kundera (1929) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Les Houches School of Physics, Science Faculty of Paris and Lycée Émir Abdelkader
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1997), Prix Ampère (1979) and Matteucci Medal (1995)
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French
- Wikipedia editions
- 71
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. Working below.
Where Claude sits
Six lines
Claude’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Constantine 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 Constantine that night
Computed for 36.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Constantine was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 84.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Constantine sits at 36.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Constantine at all: they sit past the −53.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 37% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 35° down.
How unusual Claude's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · Five planets retrograde · Mars retrograde
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 →Claude Cohen-Tannoudji at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, 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.
What Aries means →Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji was born on April 1, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's birth date, April 1, 1933, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Claude’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's date-only chart is Uranus square Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Claude’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Gemini 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
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
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.3° to 6.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune7.5° to 7.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 25°24′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 16°52′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 9°12′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 0°04′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 7°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Claude’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune3 pts
disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Claude’s chart
Stellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Claude’s cards
Computed from April 1, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Claude’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190697 (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 Studio Harcourt, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Claude Cohen-Tannoudji at Wikipedia.
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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.
- 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 is Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
