Heinrich Rohrer
Heinrich Rohrer (born June 6, 1933, Buchs, Switzerland; died 2013), was a Swiss physicist. Rohrer's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Inventors Hall of Fame and IBM Fellow.
Heinrich Rohrer’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Heinrich
Heinrich Rohrer’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Storyteller
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Heinrich in the U.S.?
#4768
US rank in 2025
~526
Americans share it since 1956
2024
its peak year
US records hold Heinrich from 1956 onward, though not for 1933 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2024 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Heinrich’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Heinrich’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
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 1933, 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 Heinrich apart
The King Faisal Prize in Science came in 1984, when Heinrich Rohrer was 51.
Heinrich Rohrer was taught at ETH Zurich.
On the family side, Heinrich Rohrer was married Rose-Marie Egger.
On Wikipedia the categories read Swiss Calvinist and Reformed Christians, People from Buchs, St. Gallen and Members of Academia Sinica.
Ryan Higa (1990) and QTCinderella (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- ETH Zurich
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1986), Elliott Cresson Medal (1987) and National Inventors Hall of Fame (1994)
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 73
What the chart says
Heinrich, according to the stars
Core essence
Heinrich is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Heinrich needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Heinrich feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Heinrich needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Heinrich wants to be loved
Heinrich wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Heinrich like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Heinrich creates
How Heinrich makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Heinrich creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Heinrich is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Heinrich is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Heinrich leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Heinrich channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Heinrich's birth date. Working below.
Where Heinrich sits
Six lines
Heinrich’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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Heinrich Rohrer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Buchs 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 Buchs that night
Computed for 47.17°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Buchs at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.2° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 47.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Buchs at all: they sit past the −42.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 6° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Buchs, Switzerland
The death is recorded at Wollerau, Höfe District in 2013.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Heinrich Rohrer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Heinrich's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Gemini · 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 →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Heinrich Rohrer's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 6, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Heinrich Rohrer was born on June 6, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Heinrich Rohrer's birth date, June 6, 1933, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Heinrich’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Heinrich Rohrer's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Heinrich Rohrer combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Storyteller.
Heinrich’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.5° orb
Heinrich’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 1.5° orb
Heinrich’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareJupiter0.5° to 1.3° orb
Heinrich’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSuntrineSaturn0.5° to 1.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.5° to 0.8° orb
stableVenussextileUranus0.7° to 1.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.4° to 2.2° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune7.3° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Heinrich’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 29°58′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 9°40′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 14°00′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 20°16′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 14°34′ (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 Jupiter 0.2°
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 0.7°
- Eros trine Mars 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.7°
Heinrich’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Heinrich’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.2°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.9°
More people like Heinrich
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Heinrich’s cards
Computed from June 6, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Heinrich’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q123029 (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 NIMSoffice, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Heinrich Rohrer at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Heinrich Rohrer.
Quick answers about Heinrich Rohrer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Heinrich Rohrer?
- Heinrich Rohrer was a Gemini: born June 6, 1933, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Heinrich Rohrer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 6, 1933 birth.
- What was Heinrich Rohrer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Heinrich Rohrer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Heinrich Rohrer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Heinrich Rohrer's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
