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Herbert Kroemer

Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928, Weimar, Germany; died 2024), was a German-American physics. Kroemer's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and IEEE Fellow.

Herbert Kroemer’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Herbert Kroemer’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Storyteller

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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

Of the names registered in 1928, Herbert came 25th among boys and 1,090th among girls, carried by 8,065 American boys and 48 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Herbert’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

8

Soul Urge · achievement

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on H (8) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

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

8 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Coral · Lilac · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1928, 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

Herbert Kroemer took the J. J. Ebers Award in 1973, at 45.

Training came by way of University of Jena and University of Göttingen.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Herbert Kroemer: University of Göttingen alumni, Semiconductor physicists and Engineering educators.

Tim Burton (1958) and Claudia Schiffer (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Jena and University of Göttingen
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (2000), IEEE Medal of Honor (2002) and Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2001)
Citizenship
United States and Germany
Languages
German and English
Wikipedia editions
65

What the chart says

Herbert, according to the stars

Core essence

Herbert 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 Herbert is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Herbert wants to be loved

Herbert wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Herbert and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

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 larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Herbert is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Herbert scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Herbert

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Herbert

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Herbert

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Herbert

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Herbert

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Herbert

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Herbert Kroemer

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

Herbert’s birth-night reference starFawarisblue-white · CygnusFawaris, in Cygnus. A blue-white star, 80.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Fawaris →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 21.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

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

The sky over Weimar that night

Computed for 50.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Weimar at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 9.3° of the exact zenith.

Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Weimar sits at 51.0°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −39.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Weimar on any night.

The Moon, 73% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 15° below the horizon.

How unusual Herbert's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Mercury · 1 planet 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.

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Herbert Kroemer at a glance

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Herbert Kroemer's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Earth Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Herbert Kroemer was born on August 25, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Herbert Kroemer's birth date, August 25, 1928, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Herbert’s chart

Herbert’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.5° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 0.8° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.7° orbMars faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.5° orbSun fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.9° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.4° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 4° orbSun in Virgo · 1°58′☉1°Moon in Sagittarius · 24°59′☽24°Mercury in Virgo · 10°52′☿10°Venus in Virgo · 17°03′♀17°Mars in Gemini · 10°05′♂10°Jupiter in Taurus · 10°23′♃10°Saturn in Sagittarius · 12°34′♄12°Uranus in Aries · 6°41′ · retrograde♅℞6°Neptune in Leo · 29°02′♆29°Pluto in Cancer · 17°48′♇17°

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

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Herbert’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.2° to 1.4° orb

    Herbert’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussextilePluto0.2° to 1.4° orb

    Herbert’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn0.8° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.2° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.5° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMarssextileUranus3.1° to 3.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.9° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.9° to 6.5° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.9° orb

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 1.4° to 12.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 10°07′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 12°48′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Pisces 10°02′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 16°05′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Mars 0.0°
  • Ceres square Saturn 0.2°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.3°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 0.7°
  • Eros opposition Mercury 0.8°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.0°
  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 1.7°
  • Ceres opposition Mercury 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.9°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.4°
  • Eros square Saturn 2.5°
  • Ceres square Mars 2.7°

Herbert’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Herbert’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, 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 semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 0.8°
  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 1.3°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.2°

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Herbert’s cards

Computed from August 25, 1928. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Herbert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q71016 (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 Javier Chagoya, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Herbert Kroemer at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Herbert Kroemer.

Quick answers about Herbert Kroemer’s chart

What zodiac sign was Herbert Kroemer?
Herbert Kroemer was a Virgo: born August 25, 1928, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What was Herbert Kroemer's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1928 birth.
What was Herbert Kroemer's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Herbert Kroemer's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Herbert Kroemer's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Herbert Kroemer's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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