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Henry Way Kendall

Henry Way Kendall (born December 9, 1926, Boston, United States; died 1999), was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Kendall's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Panofsky Prize and Leo Szilard Lectureship Award.

Henry Way Kendall’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Henry Way Kendall’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Healer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Henry in the U.S.?

#5

US rank in 2025

~773,564

Americans share it since 1880

2025

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1926, Henry came 19th among boys and 706th among girls, carried by 9,994 American boys and 106 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Henry’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

3

Soul Urge · being heard

22

Personality · quietly formidable

The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Henry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1926, 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 Henry apart

Henry Way Kendall took the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award in 1981, at 55.

Training came by way of Deerfield Academy and United States Merchant Marine Academy.

Cause of death is recorded as drowning.

Henry Way Kendall was born to Henry P. Kendall.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Henry Way Kendall: United States Merchant Marine Academy alumni, American underwater photographers and Sailors from Massachusetts.

Grace Hopper (1906) and Simon Helberg (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Deerfield Academy, United States Merchant Marine Academy and Amherst College
Awards
Leo Szilard Lectureship Award (1981), Nobel Prize in Physics (1990) and Panofsky Prize (1989)
Cause of death
drowning
Sport
mountaineering
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
65

What the chart says

Henry, according to the stars

Core essence

Henry is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Henry is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Henry needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Henry needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Henry wants to be loved

Henry wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Henry and watch them fall for you again.

How Henry creates

How Henry makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Henry creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Henry is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Henry is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Henry 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 Henry's birth date. Working below.

Where Henry sits

Six lines

Henry’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Henry

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Henry

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Henry

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Henry

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Henry

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Henry

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Henry Way Kendall

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Henry’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 84.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 13.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Boston that night

Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Boston at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 5.3° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.

From 42.4°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 Boston at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 26% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 52° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Boston, United States

The death is recorded at Wakulla County, Florida in 1999.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Henry Way Kendall: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Henry's chart is

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Mercury

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.

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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Needs a horizon, any horizon.

Henry Way Kendall's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 9, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Fire Tiger

Leads by moving.

Henry Way Kendall was born on December 9, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Henry Way Kendall's birth date, December 9, 1926, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Henry’s chart

Henry’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.4° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.1° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 3.7° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.8° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 4.2° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.2° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 4.4° orbSun in Sagittarius · 16°53′☉16°Moon in Aquarius · 13°10′☽13°Mercury in Scorpio · 26°35′☿26°Venus in Sagittarius · 21°19′♀21°Mars in Taurus · 4°34′♂4°Jupiter in Aquarius · 22°14′♃22°Saturn in Sagittarius · 0°48′♄0°Uranus in Pisces · 25°32′♅25°Neptune in Leo · 26°58′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Cancer · 15°25′ · retrograde♇℞15°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune0.1° to 0.7° orb

    Henry’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter0.4° to 1.5° orb

    Henry’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus0.8° to 1.4° orb

    Henry’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareUranus3.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.9° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter4.1° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus4.3° to 4.6° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune5.0° to 6.3° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.2° to 5.3° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Henry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 27°56′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 16°13′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 13°01′ (moves 0.55° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 5°03′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 20°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Pluto 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.9°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.0°

Henry’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Henry’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Venus, SaturnThree 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, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Neptune, MercuryAn 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.

  • Mars quintile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.4°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 1.5°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.7°

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Henry’s cards

Computed from December 9, 1926. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Healer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Henry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190495 (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 Tom Frost, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Henry Way Kendall at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Henry Way Kendall.

Quick answers about Henry Way Kendall’s chart

What zodiac sign was Henry Way Kendall?
Henry Way Kendall was a Sagittarius: born December 9, 1926, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Henry Way Kendall's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 9, 1926 birth.
What was Henry Way Kendall's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Henry Way Kendall's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Henry Way Kendall's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Henry Way Kendall's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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