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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Arthur
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
In 1918, 10,105 American boys and 65 girls were registered Arthur — 17th among boys and 886th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Arthur’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Arthur’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1918, 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 Arthur apart
The Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry came in 1951, when Arthur Kornberg was 33.
The schooling ran through URochester Medicine and Abraham Lincoln High School.
The family line: raised 2 children.
On Wikipedia the categories read Medical personnel for the United States Coast Guard, New York University Grossman School of Medicine alumni and American Orthodox Jews.
Alexander Graham Bell (1847) and Jessica Biel (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- URochester Medicine, Abraham Lincoln High School and Grossman School of Medicine
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1959), National Medal of Science (1979) and Canada Gairdner International Award (1995)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
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. Working below.
Where Arthur sits
Six lines
Arthur’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 need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Arthur Kornberg
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.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Castor, in Gemini, 80.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.
Sun 36° below the horizon, Moon down and 69% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at Stanford, Santa Clara County in 2007.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Arthur Kornberg: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Arthur's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde
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
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunAbsorbs 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.
What Pisces means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Arthur Kornberg was born on March 3, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Arthur Kornberg's birth date, March 3, 1918, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Arthur’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Arthur Kornberg's date-only chart is Mercury square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Arthur Kornberg combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Arthur’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° 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
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
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.0° orb
stableMarssquarePluto5.1° to 5.5° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter5.2° to 5.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 28°22′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 29°45′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 15°53′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 12°50′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 23°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Mars 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.5°
- Ceres square Mars 1.6°
Arthur’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Arthur’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Arthur’s family here
One relative of Arthur Kornberg also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Arthur’s cards
Computed from March 3, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Arthur’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295678 (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 NIH History Office from Bethesda, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Arthur Kornberg at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Arthur Kornberg's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Arthur Kornberg's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
