Hamilton Smith
Hamilton Smith (born August 23, 1931, New York City, United States; died 2025), was an American microbiologist. Smith's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria and Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.
Hamilton Smith’s zodiac sign was Leo or Virgo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Hamilton
How common is the name Hamilton in the U.S.?
#3152
US rank in 2025
~6,517
Americans share it since 1880
2016
its peak year
Hamilton ranked 833rd in 1931, the year of this birth, with 57 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hamilton’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on H (8) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hamilton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · 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 1931, 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 Hamilton apart
Hamilton Smith took the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1978, at 47.
The classrooms behind this chart: University Laboratory High School and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Wikipedia's editors put Hamilton Smith under University Laboratory High School (Urbana, Illinois) alumni, Human Genome Project scientists and Phage workers.
Kobe Bryant (1978) and River Phoenix (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University Laboratory High School, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Awards
- Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2001), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1978) and honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (1996)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 50
What the chart says
Hamilton, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Hamilton is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Hamilton needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Hamilton wants to be loved
Hamilton wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Hamilton openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Hamilton creates
How Hamilton makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Hamilton creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Hamilton is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Hamilton 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: 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. Hamilton fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Hamilton's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Hamilton Smith
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Vega, in Lyra, 84.8° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 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.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
Sun 14° below the horizon, Moon up and 84% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Ellicott City, Howard County in 2025.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Hamilton Smith: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Hamilton's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Uranus · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Leo or Virgo Sun
Hamilton Smith was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Hamilton Smith was born on August 23, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Hamilton Smith's birth date, August 23, 1931, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Hamilton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hamilton Smith's date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with four planets in each.
Hamilton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Capricorn 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
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.7° orb
Hamilton’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.8° to 1.9° orb
Hamilton’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.2° to 2.3° orb
Hamilton’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableUranussquarePluto2.4° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn3.2° to 3.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.1° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus4.9° to 5.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.3° to 6.2° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.6° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Hamilton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 23°37′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 25°10′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 16°45′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 29°38′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 1°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.2°
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Chiron square Venus 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.2°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.9°
Hamilton’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Hamilton’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, 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 onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Mars, Uranus, SaturnAn 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.
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.8°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
More people like Hamilton
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- Jules A. Hoffmann1941
- Martin Evans1941
Born in United States
- Walter MercadoPuerto Rican astrologer
- John GavinAmerican film actor and former Ambassador to Mexico
- Angie DickinsonAmerican actress (born 1931)
- Jerry HermanAmerican composer and lyricist
- Walter GilbertAmerican biochemist
- John McPheeAmerican writer
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Also born on August 23
- Kobe Bryant1978
- River Phoenix1970
- Julian Fernando Casablancas Christiansen1978
- Lil Yachty1997
- Jay Mohr1970
- Caroline Manzo1961
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Trayce Jackson-DavisAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Immanuel QuickleyAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Adem BonaTurkish basketball player (born 2003)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- James BluntEnglish singer-songwriter (born 1974)
- Emma BuntonBritish singer (born 1976)
- Katrina BowdenAmerican actress and model
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Hamilton’s cards
Computed from August 23, 1931. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hamilton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108896 (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 Jane Gitschier, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hamilton Smith at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hamilton Smith.
Quick answers about Hamilton Smith’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hamilton Smith?
- Hamilton Smith was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Hamilton Smith's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 23, 1931 birth.
- What was Hamilton Smith's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Hamilton Smith's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Hamilton Smith's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hamilton Smith's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
