Ben Roy Mottelson
Ben Roy Mottelson (born July 9, 1926, Chicago, United States; died 2022), was a Danish-American nuclear physicist. Mottelson is best remembered for Nuclear Structure. Mottelson's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Atoms for Peace Award and Ole Rømer Medal.
Ben Roy Mottelson’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.How compatible are you with Ben Roy Mottelson?
Your birthday, just below, gives your match percentage with Ben. Under a minute.
Your AsterNym Match
?%Your score is waiting.
Two details and you have your number with Ben. Under a minute, and it is real astrology, not a quiz.
Your result includes:
- · Your compatibility percentage
- · What attracts you to each other
- · What you would bring to the match
- · Where you might clash
- · Whether you share lucky numbers, colours, stones or seasons
Ben Roy Mottelson’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Ben in the U.S.?
#843
US rank in 2025
~85,816
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Ben’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ben, according to the stars
Core essence
Ben feels the room before entering it. The core of Ben is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Ben, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Ben is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Ben needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Ben wants to be loved
Ben wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Ben like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Ben creates
How Ben 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. Ben 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: Ben is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ben 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Ben gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Ben's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ben sits
Six lines. Tap where you sit on each.
Ben’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Ben Roy Mottelson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Ben Roy Mottelson's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 9, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Ben Roy Mottelson was born on July 9, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Ben Roy Mottelson's birth date, July 9, 1926, 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 Ben’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ben Roy Mottelson's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Earth.
- Ben Roy Mottelson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Ben’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ben Roy Mottelson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Cancer 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
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
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.
stableMoonconjunctionPluto0.0° to 6.7° orb
Ben’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareMars0.1° to 0.5° orb
Ben’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.2° to 0.4° orb
Ben’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquarePluto1.8° to 2.4° orb
Ben’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionPluto1.9° to 2.8° orb
Ben’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.4° to 3.4° orb
Ben’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb
Ben’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineMars3.2° to 3.5° orb
Ben’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileMars3.4° to 4.0° orb
Ben’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
Ben’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb
Ben’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.7° orb
Ben’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Ben’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°50′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Ben building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresVirgo 9°21′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Ben caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 14°11′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Ben is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLeo 10°14′ (moves 0.36° 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 Ben at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 3°25′ (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 Ben exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.1°
- Eros square Mars 2.2°
- Eros opposition Sun 2.5°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.8°
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°).
Ben’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. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Ben is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Ben’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.
T-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
- Venus quintile Uranus 1.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ben Roy Mottelson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Ben
Other physicists
- Peter Higgs1929
- Val Logsdon Fitch1923
- Donald Arthur Glaser1926
- John B. Goodenough1922
- Herbert Kroemer1928
- Leo Esaki1925
Born in United States
- Poul AndersonAmerican science fiction writer
- Don RicklesAmerican stand-up comedian
- Harry Dean StantonAmerican actor
- James MerrillAmerican poet
- John ColtraneAmerican jazz saxophonist
- Marilyn MonroeAmerican actress and model
More charts like Ben’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Diahann CarrollAmerican actress, singer, model and activist
- Chris CooperAmerican actor (1951-)
- Rachel BrosnahanAmerican actress
Born in Tiger years
- Paul SalopekAmerican newspaper editor
- Edward P. JonesAmerican novelist, short story writer
- Bernard MalamudAmerican author
Also born on July 9
- Tom Hanks1956
- Courtney Love1964
- O. J. Simpson1947
- Lindsey Graham1955
- Jack White1975
- Marc Andreessen1971
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Zuby EjioforAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
- Chaney JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Dennis SchröderGerman basketball player (born 1993)
Other Cancer Tiger charts
- Devin Bush Jr.American football player (born 1998)
- Jalen ThompsonAmerican football safety
- Camryn BynumAmerican football cornerback
- Rodney Thomas IIAmerican football player (born 1998)
Other Steadfast Visionarys
- T. Harry WilliamsAmerican historian
- Laura E. RichardsAmerican writer
- Alan TaylorAmerican historian
- Katori HallAmerican playwright
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Ian JohnsonAmerican journalist
- James LapineAmerican stage director and librettist. (born 1949)
- Jim G. LucasAmerican journalist
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Ben’s cards
Every card is computed from July 9, 1926, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
Tap to flip
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ben Roy Mottelson, 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
Ben’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107423, 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 GFHund, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ben Roy Mottelson 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 Ben Roy Mottelson.
Quick answers about Ben Roy Mottelson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ben Roy Mottelson?
- Ben Roy Mottelson was a Cancer: born July 9, 1926, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
- What was Ben Roy Mottelson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 9, 1926 birth.
- What time was Ben Roy Mottelson 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 Ben Roy Mottelson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the July 9, 1926 birth date.
- What was Ben Roy Mottelson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 9, 1926 birth date.
- Where was Ben Roy Mottelson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ben Roy Mottelson's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
More charts to explore
Santiago Ramón y CajalSpanish scientist
François EnglertBelgian theoretical physicist
Alva MyrdalSwedish sociologist and politician
Selman Abraham WaksmanAmerican scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics
George S. KaufmanAmerican writer
Wesley MorrisAmerican journalist