Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Arthur Leonard Schawlow (born May 5, 1921, Mount Vernon, United States; died 1999), was an American physicist. Schawlow's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Inventors Hall of Fame and IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award.
Arthur Leonard Schawlow’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rooster, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Arthur
Arthur Leonard Schawlow’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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 1921, 10,527 American boys and 52 girls were registered Arthur — 19th among boys and 1,045th 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
5
Soul Urge · freedom
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9).
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
5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1921, 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 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award came in 1964, when Arthur Leonard Schawlow was 43.
The schooling ran through Vaughan Road Academy and University of Toronto.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Mount Vernon, New York, American expatriate academics in Canada and Autism activists.
Henry Cavill (1983) and Carlos Alcaraz (2003) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Vaughan Road Academy and University of Toronto
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1981), National Medal of Science (1991) and IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1964)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 73
What the chart says
Arthur, according to the stars
Core essence
Arthur is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Arthur is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Arthur runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Arthur needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Arthur wants to be loved
Arthur 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 Arthur creates
How Arthur makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Arthur creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Arthur is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Arthur is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Leonard Schawlow
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon that night
Computed for 40.91°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Mount Vernon was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 82.4° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
Mount Vernon sits at 40.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Mount Vernon on any night.
The Moon, 4% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 11° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Mount Vernon, United States
The death is recorded at Palo Alto, Santa Clara County in 1999.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Arthur Leonard Schawlow: 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
70 / 100 · Rare
3-planet stellium in Taurus · 2 unaspected planets · No Air planets
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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Arthur Leonard Schawlow's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 5, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterCandid to a fault.
Arthur Leonard Schawlow was born on May 5, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Arthur Leonard Schawlow's birth date, May 5, 1921, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Arthur’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Arthur Leonard Schawlow's date-only chart is Mercury trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Air.
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Arthur’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Aries 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
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 1.1° orb
Arthur’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 1.1° orb
Arthur’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus0.1° orb
Arthur’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.7° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.0° to 3.1° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableUranustrinePluto1.8° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.1° to 6.2° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter5.2° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Arthur’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 11°54′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 14°26′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 2°09′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 24°26′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.8°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.9°
- Eros square Mars 2.4°
Arthur’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 5 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Arthur’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.7°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.3°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.0°
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Arthur’s cards
Computed from May 5, 1921. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Arthur’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190503 (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 Jose Mercado / Stanford News Service, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Arthur Leonard Schawlow 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 Leonard Schawlow.
Quick answers about Arthur Leonard Schawlow’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Arthur Leonard Schawlow?
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow was a Taurus: born May 5, 1921, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Arthur Leonard Schawlow's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 5, 1921 birth.
- What was Arthur Leonard Schawlow's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Arthur Leonard Schawlow's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Arthur Leonard Schawlow's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Arthur Leonard Schawlow's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
