Frederick Chapman Robbins
Frederick Chapman Robbins (born August 25, 1916, Auburn, United States; died 2003), was an American doctor. Robbins's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and E. Mead Johnson Award.
Frederick Chapman Robbins’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Frederick
Frederick Chapman Robbins’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Frederick in the U.S.?
#435
US rank in 2025
~267,165
Americans share it since 1880
1951
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1916, Frederick came 52nd among boys and 2,174th among girls, carried by 3,325 American boys and 15 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Frederick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
9
Soul Urge · meaning
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Frederick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Lilac · Flame orange
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 1916, 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 Frederick apart
Frederick Chapman Robbins took the E. Mead Johnson Award in 1953, at 37.
Training came by way of David H. Hickman High School and University of Missouri.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Frederick Chapman Robbins: People from Auburn, Alabama, American pediatricians and Hickman High School alumni.
Tim Burton (1958) and Claudia Schiffer (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- David H. Hickman High School, University of Missouri and Harvard Medical School
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1954) and E. Mead Johnson Award (1953)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 55
What the chart says
Frederick, according to the stars
Core essence
Frederick notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Frederick is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Frederick wants to be loved
Frederick 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. Frederick gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Frederick creates
How Frederick makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Frederick builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Frederick is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Frederick 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Frederick fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Frederick's birth date. Working below.
Where Frederick sits
Six lines
Frederick’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Frederick Chapman Robbins
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Auburn 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 Auburn that night
Computed for 32.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Auburn at 9 p.m. that evening: Albireo of Cygnus, within 5.0° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
From 32.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Auburn at all: they sit past the −57.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon down and 6% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Auburn, United States
- Lived in
- Columbia
Wikidata records Columbia as Frederick Chapman Robbins's home, against Auburn as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Cleveland, Cuyahoga County in 2003.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Frederick Chapman Robbins: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Frederick's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Frederick Chapman Robbins at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Frederick Chapman Robbins's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Frederick Chapman Robbins was born on August 25, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Frederick Chapman Robbins's birth date, August 25, 1916, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Frederick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Frederick Chapman Robbins' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Frederick Chapman Robbins combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
Frederick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Cancer or Leo 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
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb
Frederick’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.3° orb
Frederick’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSunsextilePluto1.5° to 2.4° orb
Frederick’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.9° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter2.8° to 3.7° orb
stableVenussquareMars3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.4° to 4.0° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn4.5° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.9° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Frederick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 25°02′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 6°18′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 19°29′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 3°15′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 21°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Mercury 0.2°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.3°
- Chiron trine Saturn 0.5°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.1°
- Eros trine Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.2°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.3°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 2.8°
Frederick’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Frederick’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.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 0.5°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 2.0°
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Other Evergreen Explorers
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From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Frederick’s cards
Computed from August 25, 1916. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Frederick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q309885 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Frederick Chapman Robbins at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Frederick Chapman Robbins.
Quick answers about Frederick Chapman Robbins’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Frederick Chapman Robbins?
- Frederick Chapman Robbins was a Virgo: born August 25, 1916, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Frederick Chapman Robbins's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1916 birth.
- What was Frederick Chapman Robbins's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Frederick Chapman Robbins's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Frederick Chapman Robbins's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Frederick Chapman Robbins's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
