Clifford Shull
Clifford Shull (born September 23, 1915, Pittsburgh, United States; died 2001), was an American physicist. Shull's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize and Humboldt Research Fellowship.
Clifford Shull’s zodiac sign was Virgo or Libra (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Wood Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Clifford
How common is the name Clifford in the U.S.?
#1352
US rank in 2025
~190,268
Americans share it since 1880
1925
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1915, Clifford came 61st among boys and 1,292nd among girls, carried by 2,741 American boys and 30 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Clifford’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
9
Soul Urge · meaning
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on C (3) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Clifford’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1915, 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 Clifford apart
Clifford Shull took the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in 1956, at 41.
Schenley High School and Carnegie Mellon University shaped the training.
The grave is at Rosemont Cemetery.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Clifford Shull: Oak Ridge National Laboratory people, Schenley High School alumni and Scientists from Pittsburgh.
Bruce Springsteen (1949) and Ray Charles (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Schenley High School, Carnegie Mellon University and New York University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1994), Gregori Aminoff Prize (1993) and Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1956)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Buried at
- Rosemont Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 62
What the chart says
Clifford, according to the stars
How Clifford wants to be loved
Clifford wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Clifford gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Clifford creates
How Clifford makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Clifford creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Clifford 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Clifford 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 Clifford 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 Clifford's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Clifford Shull
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh that night
Computed for 40.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Pittsburgh at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.2° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 30° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Pittsburgh, United States
The death is recorded at Medford, Middlesex County in 2001.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Clifford Shull: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Clifford's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Pluto · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Virgo or Libra Sun
Clifford Shull was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Clifford Shull was born on September 23, 1915, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Clifford Shull's birth date, September 23, 1915, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Clifford’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Clifford Shull's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
Clifford’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Pisces or 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
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.0° to 6.6° orb
Clifford’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoonsquarePluto0.0° to 6.5° orb
Clifford’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb
Clifford’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquarePluto0.2° to 1.4° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter0.4° to 1.1° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune2.1° to 3.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.8° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysquareMars2.9° to 3.5° orb
stableSunsquarePluto3.2° to 4.2° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter6.3° to 7.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn6.3° to 6.9° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Clifford’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 19°56′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 29°32′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 15°41′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 14°36′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 14°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Sun 0.0°
- Eros trine Saturn 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.6°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.7°
- Ceres trine Venus 3.0°
Clifford’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Clifford’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.4°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.4°
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Also born on September 23
- Bruce Springsteen1949
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Lars AhlforsFinnish mathematician
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Famous people with Life Path 3
- Paul HeyseGerman writer
- Wolfgang Pauliphysicist, Nobel prize winner
- Paul D. BoyerAmerican biochemist
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Clifford’s cards
Computed from September 23, 1915. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Clifford’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q201506 (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 Photo is from US Atomic Energy Commission or Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Article rights are T. E. Mason et al. 2013 (for Oak Ridge National Laboratory)., CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Clifford Shull at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Clifford Shull.
Quick answers about Clifford Shull’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Clifford Shull?
- Clifford Shull was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Clifford Shull's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 23, 1915 birth.
- What was Clifford Shull's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Clifford Shull's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Clifford Shull's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Clifford Shull's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
