Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich (born October 4, 1938, Aarberg, Switzerland), aged 87, is a Swiss chemist (born 1938). Wüthrich has served as advisory board. Wüthrich's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and Marcel Benoist Prize.
Kurt Wüthrich’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Tiger, with 
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Kurt Wüthrich’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Kurt in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~86,054
Americans share it since 1880
1964
its peak year
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Kurt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Kurt, according to the stars
Core essence
Kurt makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Kurt is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Kurt needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Kurt needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Kurt wants to be loved
Kurt wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Kurt even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Kurt creates
How Kurt makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Kurt creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Kurt 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 8 is the powerhouse. Kurt is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Kurt 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 Kurt's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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.
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Kurt Wüthrich at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Kurt Wüthrich's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 4, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Kurt Wüthrich was born on October 4, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Kurt Wüthrich's birth date, October 4, 1938, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Kurt’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kurt Wüthrich's date-only chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Kurt Wüthrich combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Kurt’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Kurt Wüthrich, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
Placements
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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.
stableMarstrineUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Kurt’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.9° to 1.7° orb
Kurt’s affections grind against their growth.
stableVenussextileNeptune2.1° to 2.8° orb
Kurt’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionSaturn3.8° to 4.9° orb
Kurt’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.2° to 5.1° orb
Kurt’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranustrineNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
Kurt’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune4.5° to 5.1° orb
Kurt’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareUranus5.6° orb
Kurt’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionUranus6.6° to 7.3° orb
Kurt’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Kurt’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.
⚷ ChironCancer 9°52′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Kurt is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 27°55′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Kurt is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosSagittarius 5°29′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Kurt attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 1°35′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Kurt carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 21°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Kurt is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.3°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Chiron square Sun 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.7°
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°).
Kurt’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. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Kurt is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Kurt’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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kurt Wüthrich, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Kurt’s cards
Every card is computed from October 4, 1938, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Kurt Wüthrich, 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
Kurt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110957, 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 Markus Pössel (User: Mapos), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kurt Wüthrich at Wikipedia, scripps.edu and IMDb.
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.
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Quick answers about Kurt Wüthrich’s chart
- How old is Kurt Wüthrich?
- Kurt Wüthrich is 87 years old, born October 4, 1938 in Aarberg, Switzerland.
- What zodiac sign is Kurt Wüthrich?
- Kurt Wüthrich is a Libra: born October 4, 1938, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger.
- What is Kurt Wüthrich's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 4, 1938 birth.
- What time was Kurt Wüthrich 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 Kurt Wüthrich's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 4, 1938 birth date.
- What is Kurt Wüthrich's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 4, 1938 birth date.
- Where is Kurt Wüthrich's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Kurt Wüthrich's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
