Herbert A. Hauptman
Herbert A. Hauptman (born February 14, 1917, New York City, United States; died 2011), was an American mathematician. Hauptman's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics and Jacob F. Schoellkopf Medal.
Herbert A. Hauptman’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Herbert
Herbert A. Hauptman’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Herbert in the U.S.?
#2656
US rank in 2025
~229,383
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
In 1917, 4,745 American boys and 22 girls were registered Herbert — 40th among boys and 1,677th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Herbert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on H (8) and closes on T (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Herbert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · 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 1917, 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 Herbert apart
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry came in 1985, when Herbert A. Hauptman was 68.
Study took Herbert A. Hauptman to Johns Hopkins University and City College of New York.
On Wikipedia the categories read Secular humanists, Mathematicians from New York (state) and Townsend Harris High School alumni.
Ángel Di María (1988) and Michael Bloomberg (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Johns Hopkins University, City College of New York and University at Buffalo
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1985), Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics (1991) and honorary doctor of the University of Maryland (1985)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 57
What the chart says
Herbert, according to the stars
Core essence
Herbert is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Herbert is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Herbert 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 Herbert 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 Herbert wants to be loved
Herbert wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Herbert be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Herbert creates
How Herbert makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Herbert creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Herbert is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Herbert is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Herbert goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Herbert's birth date. Working below.
Where Herbert sits
Six lines
Herbert’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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.
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 Herbert A. Hauptman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 9.8° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
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 40° below the horizon, Moon down and 50% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
- Lived in
- New York City
Wikidata records New York City as Herbert A. Hauptman's home, New York City among them.
The death is recorded at Buffalo, Erie County in 2011.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Herbert A. Hauptman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Herbert's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Jupiter · 2 planets at a critical degree
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 →Herbert A. Hauptman at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Herbert A. Hauptman's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 14, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Herbert A. Hauptman was born on February 14, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Herbert A. Hauptman's birth date, February 14, 1917, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Herbert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Herbert A. Hauptman's date-only chart is Mercury square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Herbert A. Hauptman combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Herbert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° 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
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.3° to 1.3° orb
Herbert’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.5° to 2.1° orb
Herbert’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextilePluto2.1° to 2.3° orb
Herbert’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.5° to 2.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.8° to 4.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.9° to 5.1° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.2° to 5.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus5.0° to 5.9° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.2° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Herbert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 24°03′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 18°52′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 17°41′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 13°43′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 11°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.0°
- Eros square Uranus 2.3°
Herbert’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Herbert’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Venus, Mars, UranusThree 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 Jupiter · Mercury, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn 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.
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.4°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Herbert’s cards
Computed from February 14, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Herbert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107422 (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 Dave Pape, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Herbert A. Hauptman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Herbert A. Hauptman?
- Herbert A. Hauptman was an Aquarius: born February 14, 1917, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Herbert A. Hauptman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 14, 1917 birth.
- What was Herbert A. Hauptman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Herbert A. Hauptman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Herbert A. Hauptman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Herbert A. Hauptman's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
