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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rooster, with 
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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
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
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mount Vernon on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Arthur Leonard Schawlow, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Arthur’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.0° to 3.1° orb
Arthur’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
Arthur’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableUranustrinePluto1.8° orb
Arthur’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.1° to 4.1° orb
Arthur’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareNeptune3.1° to 4.1° orb
Arthur’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.1° to 6.2° orb
Arthur’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineJupiter5.2° to 6.1° orb
Arthur’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 11°54′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Arthur may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCancer 14°26′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Arthur is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosPisces 2°09′ (moves 0.47° 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.
⚕ HygieaLeo 24°26′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Arthur at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Arthur at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.8°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.9°
- Eros square Mars 2.4°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Arthur is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Arthur Leonard Schawlow, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Arthur’s cards
Every card is computed from May 5, 1921, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Arthur Leonard Schawlow, 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 Q190503, 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 Jose Mercado / Stanford News Service, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Arthur Leonard Schawlow at Wikipedia.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster.
- 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 time was Arthur Leonard Schawlow 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 Leonard Schawlow's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 5, 1921 birth date.
- What was Arthur Leonard Schawlow's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 5, 1921 birth date.
- 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.
