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Daniel C. Tsui

Daniel C. Tsui (born February 28, 1939, Baofeng County, China), aged 87, is a Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate. Tsui's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize and Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Daniel C. Tsui’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Daniel C. Tsui’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Seeker

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Daniel in the U.S.?

#22

US rank in 2025

~1,991,091

Americans share it since 1880

1985

its peak year

In 1939, 5,797 American boys and 23 girls were registered Daniel — 38th among boys and 1,598th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Daniel’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

9

Soul Urge · meaning

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on D (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Daniel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Violet · Rose-gold · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, 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 Daniel apart

The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize came in 1984, when Daniel C. Tsui was 45.

Study took Daniel C. Tsui to Clementi Secondary School and Augustana College.

On the family side, Daniel C. Tsui was raised one child.

On Wikipedia the categories read Augustana College (Illinois) alumni, Physicists from Henan and People from Pingdingshan.

Linus Pauling (1901) and Steven Chu (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Clementi Secondary School, Augustana College and Pui Ching Middle School
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (1998), Benjamin Franklin Medal (1998) and Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1984)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
65

What the chart says

Daniel, according to the stars

Core essence

Daniel feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Daniel is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Daniel processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Daniel needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Daniel wants to be loved

Daniel wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Daniel you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Daniel creates

How Daniel 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. Daniel 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: Daniel 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Daniel 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Daniel has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Daniel's birth date. Working below.

Where Daniel sits

Six lines

Daniel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Daniel

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Daniel

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Daniel

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Daniel

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Daniel

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Daniel

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Daniel C. Tsui

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Baofeng County on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Daniel’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 83.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 65.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Baofeng County that night

Computed for 33.87°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Baofeng County at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 6.3° of the exact zenith.

Of the 100 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Baofeng County sits at 33.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −56.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Baofeng County on any night.

The Moon, 66% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 33° below the horizon.

How unusual Daniel's chart is

Chart pattern score

71 / 100 · Rare

Grand cross · 3-planet stellium in Pisces · No Air 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Pisces Sun

Kind, porous, easily flooded.

Daniel C. Tsui's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 28, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Earth Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Daniel C. Tsui was born on February 28, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Daniel C. Tsui's birth date, February 28, 1939, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Daniel’s chart

Daniel’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.6° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1.3° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.5° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 2° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.1° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 3.1° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 3.9° orbSun in Pisces · 8°40′☉8°Moon in Gemini · 21°44′☽21°Mercury in Pisces · 16°34′☿16°Venus in Capricorn · 23°52′♀23°Mars in Sagittarius · 17°51′♂17°Jupiter in Pisces · 13°30′♃13°Saturn in Aries · 15°52′♄15°Uranus in Taurus · 14°25′♅14°Neptune in Virgo · 22°20′ · retrograde♆℞22°Pluto in Cancer · 29°36′ · retrograde♇℞29°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.6° to 1.9° orb

    Daniel’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus0.8° to 1.0° orb

    Daniel’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune1.0° to 2.1° orb

    Daniel’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurysextileUranus1.2° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn1.8° to 2.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.2° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter4.2° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune4.2° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.4° to 5.2° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune4.8° to 6.7° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto5.2° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Daniel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 4°09′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 23°05′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosPisces 1°47′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn or Sagittarius during this date

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 7°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Neptune 0.7°
  • Ceres trine Venus 0.8°

Daniel’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Daniel’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Mercury, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.4°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 2.0°

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Daniel’s cards

Computed from February 28, 1939. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Seeker

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Daniel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q202138 (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 Istvan Hargittai, CC BY 4.0, 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 Daniel C. Tsui.

Quick answers about Daniel C. Tsui’s chart

How old is Daniel C. Tsui?
Daniel C. Tsui is 87 years old, born February 28, 1939 in Baofeng County, China.
What zodiac sign is Daniel C. Tsui?
Daniel C. Tsui is a Pisces: born February 28, 1939, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Daniel C. Tsui's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 28, 1939 birth.
What is Daniel C. Tsui's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Daniel C. Tsui's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Daniel C. Tsui's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Daniel C. Tsui's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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