Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek (born May 15, 1951, Mineola, United States), aged 75, is an American theoretical physicist. Wilczek is best known for quantum chromodynamics. Wilczek's honours include Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow and ICTP Dirac Medal.
Frank Wilczek’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Frank
Frank Wilczek’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Frank in the U.S.?
#514
US rank in 2025
~920,589
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Frank ranked 31st among boys and 1,442nd among girls in 1951, the year of this birth, with 11,477 American boys and 43 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Frank’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Frank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
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 1951, 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 Frank apart
The shelf Frank Wilczek is read from: quantum chromodynamics.
The classrooms behind this chart: Martin Van Buren High School and University of Chicago.
Frank Wilczek was married Betsy Devine.
Wikipedia's editors put Frank Wilczek under MIT Center for Theoretical Physics faculty, Martin Van Buren High School alumni and Lorentz Medal winners.
The same date carries Nancy Walton Laurie. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- quantum chromodynamics
- Educated at
- Martin Van Buren High School, University of Chicago and Princeton University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2004), Lorentz Medal (2002) and Templeton Prize (2022)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 73
What the chart says
Frank, according to the stars
Core essence
Frank is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Frank is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Frank is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Frank needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Frank wants to be loved
Frank wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Frank gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Frank creates
How Frank 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. Frank 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: Frank 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. Frank 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Frank is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Frank's birth date. Working below.
Where Frank sits
Six lines
Frank’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Frank Wilczek
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mineola 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 Mineola that night
Computed for 40.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Mineola was Phecda, in Ursa Major, 76.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 94 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Mineola at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 68% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 9° down.
How unusual Frank's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Taurus · 1 planet at a critical degree · 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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Frank Wilczek's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 15, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Frank Wilczek was born on May 15, 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.
Frank Wilczek's birth date, May 15, 1951, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Frank’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Frank Wilczek's date-only chart is Mars trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Frank Wilczek combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Frank’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Virgo 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
stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb
Frank’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb
Frank’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb
Frank’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.2° to 2.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus1.2° to 2.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars1.6° to 1.9° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus1.8° to 2.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 4.3° to 16.6° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileVenusorb from 4.6° to 5.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquarePlutoorb from 6.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Frank’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 1°59′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 8°34′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 14°26′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 12°26′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 24°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.2°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.6°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.7°
Frank’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Frank’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · 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.
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.4°
Born the same day as Frank
Nancy Walton Laurie was born on May 15, 1951 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Mineola, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Frank’s cards
Computed from May 15, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107450 (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 Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Frank Wilczek at Wikipedia, frankawilczek.com, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Frank Wilczek.
Quick answers about Frank Wilczek’s chart
- How old is Frank Wilczek?
- Frank Wilczek is 75 years old, born May 15, 1951 in Mineola, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Frank Wilczek?
- Frank Wilczek is a Taurus: born May 15, 1951, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Frank Wilczek's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 15, 1951 birth.
- What is Frank Wilczek's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Frank Wilczek's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Frank Wilczek's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Frank Wilczek's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
