Pierre Agostini
Pierre Agostini (born July 23, 1941, Tunis, Tunisia), aged 85, is a French physicist. Agostini's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize.
Pierre Agostini’s zodiac sign is Cancer or Leo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Pierre
How common is the name Pierre in the U.S.?
#1253
US rank in 2025
~19,143
Americans share it since 1880
1988
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1941, Pierre came 743rd, carried by 70 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Pierre’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Pierre’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Silver
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 Pierre apart
Pierre Agostini took the Gustave-Ribaut prize in 1995, at 54.
Training came by way of Aix-Marseille University and Prytanée National Militaire.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Pierre Agostini: French experimental physicists, Aix-Marseille University alumni and People from Tunis.
Haile Selassie I (1892) and Daniel Radcliffe (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Aix-Marseille University and Prytanée National Militaire
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2023), Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize (2003) and William F. Meggers Award (2007)
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 51
What the chart says
Pierre, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Pierre is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Pierre needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Pierre wants to be loved
Pierre wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Pierre openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Pierre creates
How Pierre makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Pierre creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Pierre 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 9 is the humanitarian. Pierre is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Pierre gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Pierre's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Pierre Agostini
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tunis 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 Tunis that night
Computed for 36.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Tunis at 9 p.m. that evening: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 10.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 79 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 36.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −53.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Tunis on any night.
The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
How unusual Pierre's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · 2 planets at a critical degree
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
Cancer or Leo Sun
Pierre Agostini was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Pierre Agostini was born on July 23, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Pierre Agostini's birth date, July 23, 1941, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Pierre’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Pierre Agostini's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
Pierre’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Cancer 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
stableSunsextileUranus0.1° to 1.1° orb
Pierre’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.5° to 1.6° orb
Pierre’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareMars0.8° to 1.2° orb
Pierre’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.0° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter1.3° to 1.5° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableVenussquareUranus3.5° to 4.7° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableUranussextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 12.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Pierre’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 4°11′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 25°56′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 22°46′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 28°56′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 15°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Pluto 0.4°
- Ceres square Neptune 0.4°
- Ceres trine Venus 0.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.4°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.7°
Pierre’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Pierre’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 0.2°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.2°
More people like Pierre
Other physicists
- J. Michael Kosterlitz1943
- Gerhard Ertl1936
- Alexey Ekimov1945
- Sidney Altman1939
- Louis E. Brus1943
- Samuel C. C. Ting1936
Born in Tunisia
- Claudia CardinaleItalian actress
- Ons JabeurTunisian tennis player
- Azzedine AlaïaFrench-Tunisian fashion designer
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on July 23
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Fellow Yang Water day masters
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- Anthony QuinnMexican and American actor
Famous people with Life Path 9
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Pierre’s cards
Computed from July 23, 1941. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Pierre’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q57020342 (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 US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Pierre Agostini at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Pierre Agostini.
Quick answers about Pierre Agostini’s chart
- How old is Pierre Agostini?
- Pierre Agostini is 85 years old, born July 23, 1941 in Tunis, Tunisia.
- What zodiac sign is Pierre Agostini?
- Pierre Agostini was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Pierre Agostini's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 23, 1941 birth.
- What is Pierre Agostini's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Pierre Agostini's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Pierre Agostini's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Pierre Agostini's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
