James Franck
James Franck (born August 26, 1882, Hamburg, Germany; died 1964), was a German-American physicist. Franck's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Max Planck Medal and Dannie Heineman Prize.
James Franck’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with James
James Franck’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 James in the U.S.?
#6
US rank in 2025
~5,274,520
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
James ranked 3rd among boys and 438th among girls in 1882, the year of this birth, with 5,892 American boys and 18 girls on the register.
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
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
The record
What sets James apart
James Franck took the Hanseatic Cross (Hamburg) in 1916, at 34.
Training came by way of Wilhelm-Gymnasium and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The grave is at Ohlsdorf Cemetery.
James Franck was married Hertha Sponer.
Wikipedia's editors put James Franck under German Jewish military personnel of World War I, Heidelberg University alumni and Jewish German physicists.
Mother Teresa (1910) and Antoine Lavoisier (1743) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Wilhelm-Gymnasium, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Heidelberg University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1925), Max Planck Medal (1951) and Dannie Heineman Prize (1961)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Buried at
- Ohlsdorf Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States and Weimar Republic
- Languages
- German and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 88
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James 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 James is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How James wants to be loved
James 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. James gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How James creates
How James 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. James 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: James is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. James 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. James fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Franck
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hamburg 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 Hamburg that night
Computed for 53.55°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Hamburg at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 10.4° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
At 53.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −36.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 94% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hamburg, Germany
The death is recorded at Göttingen, Göttingen district in 1964.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Franck: 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
68 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · 2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart
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 →James Franck at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
James Franck's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 26, 1882, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Horse
Water HorseBright, restless, warm.
James Franck was born on August 26, 1882, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
James Franck's birth date, August 26, 1882, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Franck's date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Franck combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 6° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableUranustrineNeptune0.9° orb
James’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquarePluto2.3° to 3.3° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.3° to 5.0° orb
James’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.1° to 5.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.2° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.5° to 5.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.2° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 2.8° to 17.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 3.7° to 18.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire or Water signs.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 27°56′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 15°08′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 7°34′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 21°25′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 18°28′ (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 trine Neptune 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.5°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 1.3°
- Chiron conjunction Saturn 1.9°
- Chiron conjunction Pluto 2.3°
- Eros square Mars 2.5°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.6°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 2.8°
James’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune
3. ♆ Neptune3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.8°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
James’s cards
Computed from August 26, 1882. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
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
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q57066 (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 Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Franck at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about James Franck’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Franck?
- James Franck was a Virgo: born August 26, 1882, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was James Franck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 26, 1882 birth.
- What was James Franck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Franck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Franck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Franck's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
