John B. Goodenough
John B. Goodenough (born July 25, 1922, Jena, Germany; died 2023), was an American materials scientist. Goodenough's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Copley Medal and Benjamin Franklin Medal.
John B. Goodenough’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with John
John B. Goodenough’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name John in the U.S.?
#23
US rank in 2025
~5,204,377
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1922, John came 1st among boys and 385th among girls, carried by 57,280 American boys and 285 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
5
Soul Urge · freedom
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Gold · Soft pink
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 1922, 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 John apart
John B. Goodenough took the Von Hippel Award in 1989, at 67.
University of Chicago and Yale University shaped the training.
The grave is at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for John B. Goodenough: Groton School alumni, Inventors from Texas and American materials scientists.
Rosalind Franklin (1920) and Matt LeBlanc (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Chicago and Yale University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2019), Charles Stark Draper Prize (2014) and Benjamin Franklin Medal (2018)
- Buried at
- Austin Memorial Park Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of John is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, John needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What John needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How John wants to be loved
John 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 John and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. John builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: John is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. John is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of John leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. John has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from John's birth date. Working below.
Where John sits
Six lines
John’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 John B. Goodenough
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Jena 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 Jena that night
Computed for 50.93°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Jena at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.9° above the horizon in Draco.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Jena sits at 50.9°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −39.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Jena on any night.
The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 6° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Jena, Germany
The death is recorded at Austin, Travis County in 2023.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John B. Goodenough: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Uranus · T-square onto Mars
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
John B. Goodenough's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 25, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
John B. Goodenough was born on July 25, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
John B. Goodenough's birth date, July 25, 1922, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John B. Goodenough's date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- John B. Goodenough combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Leo 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
stableVenussquareMars0.0° to 0.9° orb
John’s affections grind against their drive.
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.6° to 1.7° orb
John’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.7° to 0.8° orb
John’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.8° to 1.7° orb
stableVenussextilePluto1.2° to 2.4° orb
stableMarssquareUranus1.4° to 1.6° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableUranustrinePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.8° to 5.7° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.6° to 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 17°29′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 1°41′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 26°08′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 3°00′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 22°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Sun 0.0°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.0°
- Chiron square Mercury 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Sun 1.3°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.3°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Venus, Uranus, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Mars 0.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.8°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.4°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.1°
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John’s cards
Computed from July 25, 1922. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q906529 (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 US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John B. Goodenough at Wikipedia and me.utexas.edu.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John B. Goodenough.
Quick answers about John B. Goodenough’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John B. Goodenough?
- John B. Goodenough was a Leo: born July 25, 1922, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was John B. Goodenough's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 25, 1922 birth.
- What was John B. Goodenough's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was John B. Goodenough's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John B. Goodenough's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John B. Goodenough's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
