Max Perutz
Max Perutz (born May 19, 1914, Vienna, Austria; died 2002), was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist. Perutz is best remembered for Is Science Necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists. Perutz's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Copley Medal and Wilhelm Exner Medal.
Max Perutz’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Tiger, with 
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Max Perutz’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
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Americans share it since 1880
2009
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Max’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Max, according to the stars
Core essence
Max 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 Max 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 Max wants to be loved
Max wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Max like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Max creates
How Max makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Max creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Max 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Max 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Max fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Max's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Max Perutz's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 19, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Max Perutz was born on May 19, 1914, which falls in a Wood 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 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Max Perutz's birth date, May 19, 1914, 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 Max’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Max Perutz's date-only chart is Venus trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Max Perutz combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Max’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Max Perutz, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb
Max’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMoontrineNeptune0.1° to 6.2° orb
Max’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileNeptune1.2° to 2.1° orb
Max’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.9° to 3.1° orb
Max’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.4° to 2.9° orb
Max’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn2.8° to 3.9° orb
Max’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineSaturn3.0° orb
Max’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareJupiter5.7° to 6.6° orb
Max’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSaturntrineUranus6.8° to 6.9° orb
Max’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Max’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 18°27′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Max absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAquarius 27°34′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Max is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosPisces 13°18′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Max is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaGemini 13°45′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Max needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 19°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Max carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- Chiron square Saturn 0.0°
- Ceres square Sun 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.1°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.4°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.5°
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°).
Max’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. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Max is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Max’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 in Gemini · Mercury, Venus, Saturn, PlutoThree 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Max Perutz, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Max’s cards
Every card is computed from May 19, 1914, 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 Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Max Perutz, 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
Max’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q78480, 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 Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Max Perutz 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.
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Quick answers about Max Perutz’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Max Perutz?
- Max Perutz was a Taurus: born May 19, 1914, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Tiger.
- What was Max Perutz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 19, 1914 birth.
- What time was Max Perutz 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 was Max Perutz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the May 19, 1914 birth date.
- What was Max Perutz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 19, 1914 birth date.
- Where was Max Perutz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Max Perutz's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
