Eric Allin Cornell
Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961, Palo Alto, United States), aged 64, is an American physicist, professor (born 1961). Cornell's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Fritz London Award and Zeiss Research Award.
Eric Allin Cornell’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Eric
Eric Allin Cornell’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Eric in the U.S.?
#273
US rank in 2025
~893,184
Americans share it since 1880
1970
its peak year
In 1961, 11,111 American boys and 43 girls were registered Eric — 38th among boys and 1,751st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eric’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on E (5) and closes on C (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
Eric’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
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 1961, 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 Eric apart
The Fritz London Award came in 1996, when Eric Allin Cornell was 35.
The schooling ran through Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
On Wikipedia the categories read Scientists from Palo Alto, California, Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and National Institute of Standards and Technology people.
Abigail Johnson 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
- Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2001), Fritz London Award (1996) and Benjamin Franklin Medal (2000)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 65
What the chart says
Eric, according to the stars
Core essence
Eric is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Eric is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Eric wants to be loved
Eric wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Eric and watch them fall for you again.
How Eric creates
How Eric 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. Eric 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: Eric is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Eric 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Eric 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 Eric's birth date. Working below.
Where Eric sits
Six lines
Eric’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 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 Eric Allin Cornell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Palo Alto 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 Palo Alto that night
Computed for 37.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Palo Alto was Algol, in Perseus, 84.9° up.
Of the 108 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Palo Alto sits at 37.4°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 Palo Alto at all: they sit past the −52.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 96% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Palo Alto, United States
- Lives in
- Boulder
Wikidata records Boulder as Eric Allin Cornell's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Eric Allin Cornell: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Eric's chart is
Chart pattern score
61 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Sagittarius · A bowl chart · 2 planets 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 →Eric Allin Cornell at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Eric Allin Cornell's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 19, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Eric Allin Cornell was born on December 19, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Eric Allin Cornell's birth date, December 19, 1961, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Eric’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eric Allin Cornell's date-only chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Eric Allin Cornell combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Eric’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.6° orb
Eric’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMars1.2° to 1.5° orb
Eric’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.7° to 2.3° orb
Eric’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineUranus2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.9° to 3.8° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.8° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.7° to 4.9° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 2.3° to 15.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Eric’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 2°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 13°08′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 29°32′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 8°26′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 5°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Neptune 0.5°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.1°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.9°
Eric’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Eric’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, 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.
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 2.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.3°
Born the same day as Eric
Abigail Johnson was born on December 19, 1961 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 37.4°N, the sky above Palo Alto stops at −52.6° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Eric’s cards
Computed from December 19, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eric’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q205954 (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 Betsythedevine, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eric Allin Cornell 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 Eric Allin Cornell.
Quick answers about Eric Allin Cornell’s chart
- How old is Eric Allin Cornell?
- Eric Allin Cornell is 64 years old, born December 19, 1961 in Palo Alto, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Eric Allin Cornell?
- Eric Allin Cornell is a Sagittarius: born December 19, 1961, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Eric Allin Cornell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 19, 1961 birth.
- What is Eric Allin Cornell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Eric Allin Cornell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Eric Allin Cornell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Eric Allin Cornell's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
