Michael Stuart Brown
Michael Stuart Brown (born April 13, 1941, Brooklyn, United States), aged 85, is an American geneticist and Nobel laureate. Brown's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Michael Stuart Brown’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Michael
Michael Stuart Brown’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Michael in the U.S.?
#21
US rank in 2025
~4,448,633
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
Michael ranked 16th among boys and 717th among girls in 1941, the year of this birth, with 15,935 American boys and 97 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Michael’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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 Michael apart
Michael Stuart Brown took the Heinrich Wieland Prize in 1974, at 33.
Training came by way of Cheltenham High School and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Wikipedia's editors put Michael Stuart Brown under People from Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, The Daily Pennsylvanian people and Scripps Research.
Thomas Jefferson (1743) and Samuel Beckett (1906) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Cheltenham High School and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- Awards
- National Medal of Science (1988), Heinrich Wieland Prize (1974) and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1985)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 48
What the chart says
Michael, according to the stars
Core essence
Michael 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 Michael 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, Michael feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Michael needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Michael wants to be loved
Michael 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 Michael creates
How Michael makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Michael 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: Michael is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Michael is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Michael goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Michael's birth date. Working below.
Where Michael sits
Six lines
Michael’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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.
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 Michael Stuart Brown
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 2.7° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 93% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 25° below the horizon.
How unusual Michael's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aries · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Michael Stuart Brown's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 13, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Michael Stuart Brown was born on April 13, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Michael Stuart Brown's birth date, April 13, 1941, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Michael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michael Stuart Brown's date-only chart is Mercury trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Michael Stuart Brown combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 26° Scorpio 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
stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
Michael’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.3° to 1.6° orb
Michael’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
Michael’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus4.2° to 4.4° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.2° to 5.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto5.4° to 6.1° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.5° to 5.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune5.8° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 13.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Michael’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 25°28′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 7°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 27°14′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 28°02′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 4°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Chiron square Sun 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.1°
Michael’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Michael’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.9°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 2.2°
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Also born on April 13
- Thomas Jefferson1743
- Samuel Beckett1906
- Seamus Heaney1939
- Julius Nyerere1922
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- Ty Dolla Sign1982
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
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- Venus WilliamsAmerican tennis player (born 1980)
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Other Aries Snake charts
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Other Gilded Pioneers
- Antony HewishEnglish physicist and radio astronomer
- Alfred G. GilmanAmerican pharmacologist
- Tomas LindahlNobel prize winning Swedish biologist
- Ada YonathIsraeli chemist
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Michael’s cards
Computed from April 13, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295684 (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 The original uploader was Rrawson at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Michael Stuart Brown at Wikipedia, profiles.utsouthwestern.edu and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Michael Stuart Brown.
Quick answers about Michael Stuart Brown’s chart
- How old is Michael Stuart Brown?
- Michael Stuart Brown is 85 years old, born April 13, 1941 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Michael Stuart Brown?
- Michael Stuart Brown is an Aries: born April 13, 1941, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Michael Stuart Brown's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 13, 1941 birth.
- What is Michael Stuart Brown's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Michael Stuart Brown's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Michael Stuart Brown's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Michael Stuart Brown's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
