Igor Tamm
Igor Tamm (born July 8, 1895, Vladivostok, Russia; died 1971), was a Soviet physicist. Tamm is best remembered for Cherenkov radiation and Frank–Tamm formula. Tamm's honours include Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, Nobel Prize in Physics and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Igor Tamm’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Goat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Goat, with 
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Igor Tamm’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
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US rank in 2025
~804
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Igor’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Igor, according to the stars
Core essence
Igor feels the room before entering it. The core of Igor is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Igor, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Igor wants to be loved
Igor 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 Igor and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Igor creates
How Igor makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Igor creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Igor is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Igor is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Igor fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Igor's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Igor Tamm's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 8, 1895, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Wood Goat
Wood GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Igor Tamm was born on July 8, 1895, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Igor Tamm's birth date, July 8, 1895, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Igor’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Igor Tamm's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Igor Tamm combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Igor’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Igor Tamm, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Igor’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Igor’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.1° to 1.1° orb
Igor’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareUranus0.6° to 1.3° orb
Igor’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.3° to 1.6° orb
Igor’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.4° to 2.1° orb
Igor’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.6° orb
Igor’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineSaturn5.3° to 5.7° orb
Igor’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileVenusorb from 4.2° to 5.6° depending on birth time
possibleMarssextilePlutoorb from 4.6° to 5.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 5.3° to 17.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Igor’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironLibra 3°60′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Igor is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 1°19′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Igor caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosGemini 3°38′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Igor is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 28°28′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Igor is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 1°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Igor is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres trine Venus 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.4°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.1°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.1°
- Eros square Venus 2.5°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 2.7°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Igor’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Igor is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Igor’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Igor Tamm, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Igor’s cards
Every card is computed from July 8, 1895, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Igor Tamm, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Igor’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q155759, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Igor Tamm at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Igor Tamm’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Igor Tamm?
- Igor Tamm was a Cancer: born July 8, 1895, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Goat.
- What was Igor Tamm's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 8, 1895 birth.
- What time was Igor Tamm born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Igor Tamm's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the July 8, 1895 birth date.
- What was Igor Tamm's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 8, 1895 birth date.
- Where was Igor Tamm's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Igor Tamm's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
