James Chadwick
James Chadwick (born October 20, 1891, Bollington, United Kingdom; died 1974), was an English physicist, who discovered the neutron in 1932. Chadwick served as Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Chadwick's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Knight Bachelor and Copley Medal.
James Chadwick’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with James
James Chadwick’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name James in the U.S.?
#6
US rank in 2025
~5,274,520
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
The SSA recorded 4,516 American boys and 31 girls named James in 1891: 3rd among boys and 464th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
James’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 3 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets James apart
The Hughes Medal came in 1932, when James Chadwick was 41.
Study took James Chadwick to University of Manchester and Victoria University of Manchester.
On the family side, James Chadwick was born to J. J. Chadwick, married Aileen Maud Stewart-Brown and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files James Chadwick under English nuclear physicists, Masters of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester.
Samuel Flagg Bemis shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- University of Manchester, Victoria University of Manchester and Gonville and Caius College
- Awards
- Copley Medal (1950), Nobel Prize in Physics (1935) and Hughes Medal (1932)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 99
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of James is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with James even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. James creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: James is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. James is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means James channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from James's birth date. Working below.
Where James sits
Six lines
James’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 James Chadwick
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bollington on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Bollington that night
Computed for 53.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Bollington at 9 p.m. that evening: Caph of Cassiopeia, within 11.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 93 catalog stars were up in all.
Bollington sits at 53.3°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −36.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Bollington on any night.
Sun 35° below the horizon, Moon up and 85% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Bollington, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Cambridge in 1974.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Chadwick: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Fire planets · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
James Chadwick's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 20, 1891, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitQuiet luck follows.
James Chadwick was born on October 20, 1891, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
James Chadwick's birth date, October 20, 1891, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Chadwick's date-only chart is Jupiter square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Fire.
- James Chadwick combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableJupitersquarePluto0.1° orb
James’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto0.1° orb
James’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.2° orb
James’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineJupiter2.7° to 4.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.1° to 4.3° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.9° to 4.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus4.2° to 5.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.8° to 5.5° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 1.0° to 14.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 16°47′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 19°01′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 19°48′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 11°47′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 0°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.7°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.8°
- Ceres trine Mercury 2.6°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in James’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.
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 1.1°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
Born the same day as James
Samuel Flagg Bemis was born on October 20, 1891 too, 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. From Bollington, at 53.3°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
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James’s cards
Computed from October 20, 1891. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80884 (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 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Chadwick 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 James Chadwick.
Quick answers about James Chadwick’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Chadwick?
- James Chadwick was a Libra: born October 20, 1891, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was James Chadwick's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 20, 1891 birth.
- What was James Chadwick's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Chadwick's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Chadwick's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Chadwick's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
