Hugh David Politzer
Hugh David Politzer (born August 31, 1949, New York City, United States), aged 77, is an American physicist. Politzer is best known for quantum chromodynamics. Politzer's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Sakurai Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Hugh David Politzer’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Hugh
Hugh David Politzer’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 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Hugh in the U.S.?
#732
US rank in 2025
~84,179
Americans share it since 1880
1916
its peak year
Hugh ranked 198th in 1949, the year of this birth, with 1,042 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hugh’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
6
Soul Urge · being needed
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on H (8) and closes on H (8).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hugh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
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 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1949, 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 Hugh apart
The shelf Hugh David Politzer is read from: quantum chromodynamics.
Training came by way of Bronx High School of Science and University of Michigan.
The same date carries Richard Gere and Barry Bearak. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- quantum chromodynamics
- Educated at
- Bronx High School of Science, University of Michigan and Harvard University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2004), Sakurai Prize (1986) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1997)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 66
What the chart says
Hugh, according to the stars
Core essence
Hugh 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 Hugh is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Hugh is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Hugh needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Hugh wants to be loved
Hugh wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Hugh gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Hugh creates
How Hugh makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Hugh 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: Hugh is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Hugh 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Hugh does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Hugh's birth date. Working below.
Where Hugh sits
Six lines
Hugh’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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
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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: Vega of Lyra, within 2.5° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 64% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 16° down.
How unusual Hugh's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Hugh David Politzer's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 31, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Hugh David Politzer was born on August 31, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Hugh David Politzer's birth date, August 31, 1949, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Hugh’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hugh David Politzer's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Hugh David Politzer 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.
Hugh’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Sagittarius 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
stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.1° orb
Hugh’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Hugh’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn1.0° to 1.9° orb
Hugh’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.7° to 3.3° orb
stableVenussextilePluto3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.7° to 16.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 4.6° to 17.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Hugh’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 3°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 1°14′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 28°27′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 6°52′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 15°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.6°
- Eros opposition Mars 2.6°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.6°
Hugh’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Hugh’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 sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.0°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.5°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 2.0°
Born the same day as Hugh
2 other people here were born on August 31, 1949, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.7°N, the sky above New York City stops at −49.3° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on August 31
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- Djimon HounsouBeninese actor
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Other Tidal Storytellers
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Famous people with Life Path 8
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Hugh’s cards
Computed from August 31, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hugh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107407 (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 University of Hawaii High Energy Physics Group, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hugh David Politzer at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hugh David Politzer.
Quick answers about Hugh David Politzer’s chart
- How old is Hugh David Politzer?
- Hugh David Politzer is 77 years old, born August 31, 1949 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Hugh David Politzer?
- Hugh David Politzer is a Virgo: born August 31, 1949, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Hugh David Politzer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 31, 1949 birth.
- What is Hugh David Politzer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Hugh David Politzer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Hugh David Politzer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Hugh David Politzer's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
