Carl Wieman
Carl Wieman (born March 26, 1951, Corvallis, United States), aged 75, is a Nobel prize winning US physicist. Wieman is best known for PhET Interactive Simulations. Wieman's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Fritz London Award and Einstein Prize for Laser Science.
Carl Wieman’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Carl
Carl Wieman’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Carl in the U.S.?
#1134
US rank in 2025
~508,017
Americans share it since 1880
1956
its peak year
Carl ranked 43rd among boys and 1,530th among girls in 1951, the year of this birth, with 7,641 American boys and 38 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Carl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on C (3) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Carl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
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
The record
What sets Carl apart
Richard Dawkins (1941) and Larry Page (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Carl, according to the stars
Core essence
Carl 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 Carl 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, Carl 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 Carl 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 Carl wants to be loved
Carl wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Carl is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Carl creates
How Carl makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Carl creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Carl is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Carl is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Carl 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 Carl's birth date. Working below.
Where Carl sits
Six lines
Carl’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 want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Carl Wieman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Corvallis 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 Corvallis that night
Computed for 44.57°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Corvallis at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.2° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 44.6°N, Capella never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −45.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Corvallis on any night.
The Moon, 82% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 25° below the horizon.
How unusual Carl's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Uranus · A leaning bowl
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
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Carl Wieman's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 26, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Carl Wieman was born on March 26, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Carl Wieman's birth date, March 26, 1951, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Carl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Carl Wieman's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Carl Wieman combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Carl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° 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
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Carl’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune0.2° to 0.9° orb
Carl’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.5° to 1.5° orb
Carl’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileUranus0.5° to 1.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.6° to 2.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
stableMarstrinePluto1.0° to 1.8° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto1.5° to 3.3° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.4° to 4.7° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn6.3° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Carl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 2°36′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 23°05′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 18°27′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 27°00′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 18°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Neptune 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.4°
- Eros sextile Mars 0.6°
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.3°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.6°
- Chiron square Sun 2.8°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.9°
Carl’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Carl’s chart
Stellium in Aries · 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.
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.2°
More people like Carl
Other physicists
- Eric Allin Cornell1961
- Michio Kaku1947
- Wolfgang Ketterle1957
- Hugh David Politzer1949
- Stefan Hell1962
- Ahmed Zewail1946
Born in United States
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More charts like Carl’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Emma WatsonEnglish actress
- Samuel BeckettIrish writer
- Richard DawkinsEnglish ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
Born in Rabbit years
- Hubert de GivenchyFrench fashion designer
- Madam C. J. WalkerAmerican entrepreneur
- Hugh MasekelaSouth African jazz trumpeter
Also born on March 26
- Larry Page1973
- Diana Ross1944
- Martin Short1950
- Jonathan Groff1985
- Guccio Gucci1881
- Bhad Bhabie2003
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Kyle HowardAmerican actor
- Mark HoppusAmerican musician and record producer
- David FosterCanadian musician, record producer, songwriter
Other Aries Rabbit charts
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- Adam RodríguezAmerican actor, writer, and director
- Jonathan Van NessAmerican hairstylist and TV personality (born 1987)
Other Evergreen Visionarys
- Zonovan KnightAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Bud DupreeAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Chris GodwinAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Jourdan LewisAmerican football player (born 1995)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Georg Bednorzphysicist
- Fritz Albert LipmannGerman-American biochemist
- Mario Capecchimolecular geneticist and Nobel laureate
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Carl’s cards
Computed from March 26, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Carl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q206379 (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 Tina Hager, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Carl Wieman at Wikipedia and experts.colorado.edu.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Carl Wieman.
Quick answers about Carl Wieman’s chart
- How old is Carl Wieman?
- Carl Wieman is 75 years old, born March 26, 1951 in Corvallis, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Carl Wieman?
- Carl Wieman is an Aries: born March 26, 1951, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Carl Wieman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 26, 1951 birth.
- What is Carl Wieman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Carl Wieman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Carl Wieman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Carl Wieman's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
