Inventors

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THREE FAMOUS INVENTORS

Over the years I have spent serious amounts of time looking up information about the person who discovered or invented something that I have been using for so long I can't remember a time when it wasn't available for purchase. It was no surprise that I wanted to learn more about inventors and how they came to invent the inventions that made them so famous.

The act of invention is often prompted by the need for something rather than the result of a EUREKA moment. Persistence and creativity over long periods of time usually does the trick.

One of the most important inventions of the 20th century was the invention of the transistor. There is a great deal of information about transistors on the internet and it is very interesting reading so I won't repeat it here. The three men who were awarded, in 1956, the Nobel Prize for Physics for the invention of the transistor, were employees of Bell Telephone Laboratories in the United States of America. John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain shared the honor for the first transistor and John Bardeen shared a second Nobel Prize in 1972 for another invention. These men were obviously talented and I thought you might like to know their cosmic profiles.

NAME	BIRTH DATE	BIRTH PLACE	HELIOGRAM TYPE	PLANET PATTERNS	PLANETS INVOLVED
John Bardeen	May 23, 1908	Madison, Wisconsin	Bowl	Stellium	Mars, Neptune, Pluto
				T-square	NE opp. UR, sqr. SA
William Shockley	February 13, 1910	London, England	Solo	Grand Cross	NE opp. UR
					ME opp. SA
Walter Brattain	February 10, 1902	Amoy, China	Butterfly	Stellium	Pluto, Neptune, Mercury
				T-square	PL opp. Ur, sqr. MA

The three men worked together at Bell Telephone Laboratories and as their cosmic profiles reveal they did have a lot in common. All of them were born with a hefty involvement of the outer planets, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in their heliograms.

Look at John Bardeen's T-square; he was born with Neptune opposing Uranus, both planets in square aspect to Saturn. He also has a stellium on his heliogram composed of Mars, Neptune, and Pluto.

William Shockley came into the world under a Grand Cross with Neptune opposing Uranus, Mercury opposing Saturn, and all four planets in square aspect to each other.

Walter Brattain was born under a stellium composed of Pluto, Neptune, and Mercury. His heliogram also reveals a t-square composed of Pluto opposing Uranus with both planets in square aspect to Mars.

The stellium and t-square planetary patterns are found with significant frequency in the heliograms of high achievers. The range of frequency for the Grand Cross is from 1.2% of the Olympic divers in Athens 2004 to 8.2% of Nobel prize winning physicists.

Another finding that I wish to share with you regarding these three men is that Venus and Earth were conjunct, within a degree or two of each other in the heliograms of Brattain and Shockley (born 8 years apart) and within 27 degrees of each other in the heliogram of John Bardeen. If you share common planetary patterns and aspects with others you will find them more receptive to you; in the case of these three men they worked so well together they came home with a Nobel Prize in Physics.

Building compatible teams for any type of project is a task that astrobiology makes easier.