Hans Georg Dehmelt
Hans Georg Dehmelt (born September 9, 1922, Görlitz, Germany; died 2017), was a German physicist. Dehmelt served as professor. Dehmelt's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Humboldt Prize and National Medal of Science.
Hans Georg Dehmelt’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Hans
Hans Georg Dehmelt’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Hans in the U.S.?
#1325
US rank in 2025
~15,682
Americans share it since 1880
1970
its peak year
In 1922, 62 American boys were registered Hans — 877th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hans’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hans’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
The record
What sets Hans apart
Luka Modrić (1985) and Adam Sandler (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Hans, according to the stars
Core essence
Hans 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 Hans is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Hans runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Hans needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Hans wants to be loved
Hans wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Hans even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Hans creates
How Hans makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Hans 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: Hans is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Hans 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Hans 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 Hans's birth date. Working below.
Where Hans sits
Six lines
Hans’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 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 Hans Georg Dehmelt
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Görlitz 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 Görlitz that night
Computed for 51.16°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Görlitz at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 7.6° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
Görlitz sits at 51.2°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Görlitz on any night.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 89% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 21° down.
How unusual Hans'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 →Hans Georg Dehmelt at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Hans Georg Dehmelt's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 9, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Hans Georg Dehmelt was born on September 9, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Hans Georg Dehmelt's birth date, September 9, 1922, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Hans’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hans Georg Dehmelt's date-only chart is Uranus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Hans Georg Dehmelt combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Hans’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 25° Aries 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
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.1° to 5.9° orb
Hans’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquarePluto0.1° to 1.4° orb
Hans’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrinePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
Hans’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.1° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableVenussextileMars4.1° to 4.6° orb
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 2.2° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 3.0° to 14.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 4.4° to 14.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Hans’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 16°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 15°18′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 0°37′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 10°16′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 27°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.0°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.7°
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.2°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.5°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.6°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.8°
Hans’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Hans’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.
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.2°
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Also born on September 9
- Luka Modrić1985
- Adam Sandler1966
- Hugh Grant1960
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
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- William RedfieldAmerican actor
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Famous people with Life Path 5
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Hans’s cards
Computed from September 9, 1922. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hans’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q70532 (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 Photograph by Davis Freeman, University of Washington, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W. F. Meggers Gallery of Nobel Laureates Collection, Dehmelt Collection, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hans Georg Dehmelt at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hans Georg Dehmelt.
Quick answers about Hans Georg Dehmelt’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hans Georg Dehmelt?
- Hans Georg Dehmelt was a Virgo: born September 9, 1922, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Hans Georg Dehmelt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 9, 1922 birth.
- What was Hans Georg Dehmelt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Hans Georg Dehmelt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Hans Georg Dehmelt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hans Georg Dehmelt's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
