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Arthur Kornberg

Arthur Kornberg (born March 3, 1918, Brooklyn, United States; died 2007), was an American biochemist. Kornberg's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canada Gairdner International Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Arthur Kornberg’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Arthur Kornberg’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Seeker

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Arthur in the U.S.?

#87

US rank in 2025

~551,930

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Arthur’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Arthur, according to the stars

Core essence

Arthur feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Arthur is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Arthur 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 Arthur 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 Arthur wants to be loved

Arthur wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Arthur be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Arthur creates

How Arthur makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Arthur creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Arthur 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Arthur is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Arthur channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Arthur's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Arthur sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Arthur

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Arthur

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Arthur

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Arthur

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Arthur

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Arthur

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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The quick version

Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

Arthur Kornberg's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 3, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Earth Horse

Happiest halfway there.

Arthur Kornberg was born on March 3, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Arthur Kornberg's birth date, March 3, 1918, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

What stands out in Arthur’s chart

Arthur’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Arthur Kornberg, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.6° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.7° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.2° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 3° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 3.5° orbVenus faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 4° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 4° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 5.3° orbSun in Pisces · 12°19′12°Moon in Scorpio · 15°48′15°Mercury in Pisces · 4°11′Venus in Aquarius · 12°45′12°Mars in Virgo · 28°11′ · retrograde28°Jupiter in Gemini · 3°35′Saturn in Leo · 8°48′ · retrogradeUranus in Aquarius · 24°45′24°Neptune in Leo · 4°48′ · retrogradePluto in Cancer · 3°29′ · retrograde

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Arthur’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° to 1.6° orb

    Arthur’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune1.1° to 1.3° orb

    Arthur’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.9° to 4.0° orb

    Arthur’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.0° orb

    Arthur’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarssquarePluto5.1° to 5.5° orb

    Arthur’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter5.2° to 5.6° orb

    Arthur’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.9° to 13.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 2.9° to 15.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 4.9° to 17.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Arthur’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 28°22′ (moves 0.06° 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 Arthur absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • CeresSagittarius 29°45′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Arthur is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ErosPisces 15°53′ (moves 0.65° 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. Arthur is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • HygieaPisces 12°50′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Arthur needing solitude to reset.

  • Black Moon LilithVirgo 23°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Arthur exacting with themselves first.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron opposition Mars 0.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.5°
  • Ceres square Mars 1.6°

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°).

Arthur’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. 1. Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Jupiter4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Arthur is read as tuned to what is not said.

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 Arthur’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.4°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.6°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Arthur Kornberg, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Arthur’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Tower

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

yang Earth

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

yang Wood

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Earth

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Arthur Kornberg, 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

Arthur’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295678, 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 NIH History Office from Bethesda, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Arthur Kornberg 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Arthur Kornberg.

Quick answers about Arthur Kornberg’s chart

What zodiac sign was Arthur Kornberg?
Arthur Kornberg was a Pisces: born March 3, 1918, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
What was Arthur Kornberg's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 3, 1918 birth.
What time was Arthur Kornberg 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 Arthur Kornberg's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the March 3, 1918 birth date.
What was Arthur Kornberg's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 3, 1918 birth date.
Where was Arthur Kornberg's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Arthur Kornberg's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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