Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley B. Prusiner (born May 28, 1942, Des Moines, United States), aged 84, is an American neurologist and biochemist. Prusiner's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize and Wolf Prize in Medicine.
Stanley B. Prusiner’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Stanley
Stanley B. Prusiner’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Stanley in the U.S.?
#863
US rank in 2025
~302,862
Americans share it since 1880
1954
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1942, Stanley came 56th among boys and 1,857th among girls, carried by 4,587 American boys and 22 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stanley’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
5
Soul Urge · freedom
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Stanley’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink
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 1942, 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 Stanley apart
Stanley B. Prusiner took the Dickson Prize in Medicine in 1993, at 51.
Walnut Hills High School and University of California, San Francisco shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Stanley B. Prusiner: People from Des Moines, Iowa, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni and Foreign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Kylie Minogue (1968) and Marco Rubio (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Walnut Hills High School, University of California, San Francisco and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1997), Keio Medical Science Prize (1996) and Dickson Prize in Medicine (1993)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
What the chart says
Stanley, according to the stars
Core essence
Stanley is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Stanley needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Stanley 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 Stanley 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 Stanley wants to be loved
Stanley 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 Stanley creates
How Stanley makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Stanley 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: Stanley is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Stanley is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Stanley does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Stanley's birth date. Working below.
Where Stanley sits
Six lines
Stanley’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Stanley B. Prusiner
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Des Moines 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 Des Moines that night
Computed for 41.59°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Des Moines at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.1° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 4° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Des Moines, United States
- Lives in
- San Francisco
Wikidata records San Francisco as Stanley B. Prusiner's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Stanley B. Prusiner: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Stanley's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · 1 planet 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Stanley B. Prusiner's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 28, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Stanley B. Prusiner was born on May 28, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Stanley B. Prusiner's birth date, May 28, 1942, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Stanley’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stanley B. Prusiner's date-only chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Stanley B. Prusiner combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Stanley’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 22° 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
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Stanley’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb
Stanley’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb
Stanley’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.6° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.7° to 1.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableSunsextilePluto2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableUranussextilePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.7° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussquareMars5.0° to 5.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Stanley’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 10°16′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 24°31′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 25°14′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 24°03′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Mercury 0.1°
- Eros sextile Venus 0.1°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.3°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.6°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.6°
Stanley’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Stanley’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, 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.
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.9°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 2.0°
More people like Stanley
Other physicians
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Born in United States
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on May 28
- Kylie Minogue1968
- Marco Rubio1971
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Brandon SomAmerican poet
- Paul W. WardAmerican newspaper editor
- Loren JenkinsAmerican war correspondent
Other Gemini Horse charts
- Jacques DubochetSwiss chemist
- Fraser StoddartScottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines
- Shuji NakamuraJapanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
- Ernst ChainJewish-German-born British biochemist
Other Gilded Explorers
- Gregg L. SemenzaAmerican physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many retracted papers
- Martti AhtisaariPresident of Finland from 1994 to 2000
- Ernst Otto FischerGerman chemist
- Anthony LewisAmerican journalist
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Lucas HedgesAmerican actor
- Marisa PavanItalian actress
- Paul Walter HauserAmerican actor
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Stanley’s cards
Computed from May 28, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
4 · Architect☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stanley’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q155380 (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 Christopher Michel, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Stanley B. Prusiner’s chart
- How old is Stanley B. Prusiner?
- Stanley B. Prusiner is 84 years old, born May 28, 1942 in Des Moines, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Stanley B. Prusiner?
- Stanley B. Prusiner is a Gemini: born May 28, 1942, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Stanley B. Prusiner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 28, 1942 birth.
- What is Stanley B. Prusiner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Stanley B. Prusiner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Stanley B. Prusiner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Stanley B. Prusiner's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
