Clinton Davisson
Clinton Davisson (born October 22, 1881, Bloomington, United States; died 1958), was an American physicist. Davisson's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Hughes Medal and Elliott Cresson Medal.
Clinton Davisson’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Clinton
Clinton Davisson’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Clinton in the U.S.?
#1732
US rank in 2025
~98,005
Americans share it since 1880
1981
its peak year
The SSA recorded 87 American boys named Clinton in 1881: 142nd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Clinton’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on C (3) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Clinton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Clinton apart
The Comstock Prize in Physics came in 1928, when Clinton Davisson was 47.
The schooling ran through Bloomington High School and University of Chicago.
Clinton Davisson was married Charlotte Davisson and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Clinton Davisson under Bloomington High School (Bloomington, Illinois) alumni, People from Bloomington, Illinois and Carnegie Mellon University faculty.
Doris Lessing (1919) and Javier Milei (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Bloomington High School, University of Chicago and Princeton University
- Awards
- Hughes Medal (1935), Nobel Prize in Physics (1937) and Comstock Prize in Physics (1928)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 83
What the chart says
Clinton, according to the stars
Core essence
Clinton makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Clinton is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Clinton creates
How Clinton 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. Clinton 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: Clinton is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Clinton 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.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Clinton 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 Clinton's birth date. Working below.
Where Clinton sits
Six lines
Clinton’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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Clinton Davisson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bloomington 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 Bloomington that night
Computed for 40.48°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bloomington was Scheat, in Pegasus, 77.0° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.
Bloomington sits at 40.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Bloomington at all: they sit past the −49.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Bloomington, United States
The death is recorded at Charlottesville, Virginia in 1958.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Clinton Davisson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Clinton's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Taurus · 2 planets at a critical degree · No Fire planets
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Clinton Davisson's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 22, 1881, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakePrivate by design.
Clinton Davisson was born on October 22, 1881, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Clinton Davisson's birth date, October 22, 1881, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Clinton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Clinton Davisson's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Clinton Davisson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Clinton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Libra or 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
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter0.7° to 1.4° orb
Clinton’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrinePluto1.1° to 2.3° orb
Clinton’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb
Clinton’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.5° to 1.9° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune4.0° to 4.3° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto5.7° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune5.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune6.9° to 7.5° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleVenustrineJupiterorb from 5.9° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleJupitertrineUranusorb from 7.0° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Clinton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 21°12′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 26°52′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 24°14′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 18°22′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 14°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.6°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.7°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.8°
Clinton’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Clinton’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on October 22
- Doris Lessing1919
- Javier Milei1970
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Other Libra Snake charts
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Other Steadfast Pioneers
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Clinton’s cards
Computed from October 22, 1881. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Clinton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q133222 (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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Clinton Davisson.
Quick answers about Clinton Davisson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Clinton Davisson?
- Clinton Davisson was a Libra: born October 22, 1881, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Clinton Davisson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 22, 1881 birth.
- What was Clinton Davisson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Clinton Davisson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Clinton Davisson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Clinton Davisson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
