Burton Richter
Burton Richter (born March 22, 1931, New York City, United States; died 2018), was an American physicist. Richter's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science and Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award.
Burton Richter’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Burton
Burton Richter’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Burton in the U.S.?
#4419
US rank in 2025
~22,534
Americans share it since 1880
1925
its peak year
In 1931, 473 American boys were registered Burton — 243rd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Burton’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
5
Soul Urge · freedom
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Burton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1931, 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 Burton apart
The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award came in 1975, when Burton Richter was 44.
Study took Burton Richter to Far Rockaway High School and Mercersburg Academy.
Cause of death is recorded as heart failure.
On Wikipedia the categories read Presidents of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory faculty and Mercersburg Academy alumni.
William Shatner shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Far Rockaway High School, Mercersburg Academy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1976), Enrico Fermi Award (2010) and National Medal of Science (2012)
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 69
What the chart says
Burton, according to the stars
Core essence
Burton leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Burton is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Burton is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Burton needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Burton wants to be loved
Burton 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 Burton be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Burton creates
How Burton makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Burton creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Burton is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Burton is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Burton does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Burton's birth date. Working below.
Where Burton sits
Six lines
Burton’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Burton Richter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 6.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
New York City 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 New York City on any night.
Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon up and 13% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Palo Alto, Santa Clara County in 2018.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Burton Richter: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Burton's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Aries
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 →Burton Richter at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Burton Richter's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 22, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Burton Richter was born on March 22, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Burton Richter's birth date, March 22, 1931, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Burton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Burton Richter's date-only chart is Sun trine Mars, with an orb of about 3°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Burton Richter combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Burton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Taurus 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
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.0° to 4.0° orb
Burton’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineMars2.1° to 3.0° orb
Burton’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.1° to 3.2° orb
Burton’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquareUranus3.7° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus5.7° to 7.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.2° to 7.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn6.6° to 6.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto7.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 3.6° to 15.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Burton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 15°39′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 10°38′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 6°50′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 11°03′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.2°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 2.8°
Burton’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Burton’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.0°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.7°
Born the same day as Burton
William Shatner was born on March 22, 1931 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from New York City, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Burton’s cards
Computed from March 22, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Burton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192106 (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 Burton_Richter_NSF.jpg: NSF derivative work: Materialscientist (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Burton Richter at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Burton Richter.
Quick answers about Burton Richter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Burton Richter?
- Burton Richter was an Aries: born March 22, 1931, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Burton Richter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 22, 1931 birth.
- What was Burton Richter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Burton Richter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Burton Richter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Burton Richter's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
