Karl Barry Sharpless
Karl Barry Sharpless (born April 28, 1941, Philadelphia, United States), aged 85, is an American chemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1941). Sharpless's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Wolf Prize in Chemistry and Chemical Pioneer Award.
Karl Barry Sharpless’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Karl
Karl Barry Sharpless’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Karl in the U.S.?
#1593
US rank in 2025
~101,751
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1941, Karl came 178th, carried by 864 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Karl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on K (2) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Karl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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 Karl apart
Karl Barry Sharpless took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987, at 46.
The classrooms behind this chart: Friends' Central School and Dartmouth College.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Karl Barry Sharpless: Nobel laureates with multiple Nobel awards, Scripps Research faculty and Wolf Prize in Chemistry laureates.
The same date carries Ann-Margret. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Friends' Central School, Dartmouth College and Stanford University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2001), Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2001) and NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (2000)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 67
What the chart says
Karl, according to the stars
Core essence
Karl is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Karl is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Karl wants to be loved
Karl wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Karl is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Karl creates
How Karl 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. Karl 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: Karl is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Karl is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Karl goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Karl's birth date. Working below.
Where Karl sits
Six lines
Karl’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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
Dedicate a star to Karl Barry Sharpless
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia that night
Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Philadelphia was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 87.7° up.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Philadelphia at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon up and 6% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Philadelphia, United States
- Lives in
- San Diego · Philadelphia
Wikidata records San Diego and Philadelphia as Karl Barry Sharpless's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Karl Barry Sharpless: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Karl's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Taurus · No Water 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
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Karl Barry Sharpless's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 28, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Karl Barry Sharpless was born on April 28, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Karl Barry Sharpless's birth date, April 28, 1941, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Karl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Karl Barry Sharpless' date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Karl Barry Sharpless combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Karl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° 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
stableUranustrineNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
Karl’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareSaturn1.1° to 1.6° orb
Karl’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.6° to 1.7° orb
Karl’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquarePluto1.7° to 3.7° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune1.7° to 2.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.3° to 2.6° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter5.2° to 5.6° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.4° to 6.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn5.7° to 6.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Karl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 26°03′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 8°33′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 8°49′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 3°02′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 5°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Sun 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.0°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.6°
- Ceres trine Venus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.2°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.6°
Karl’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Karl’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, 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 sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.7°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 1.2°
Born the same day as Karl
Ann-Margret was born on April 28, 1941 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. At 40.0°N, the sky above Philadelphia stops at −50.0° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in United States
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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
Karl’s cards
Computed from April 28, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Karl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110925 (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 Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Karl Barry Sharpless at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Karl Barry Sharpless’s chart
- How old is Karl Barry Sharpless?
- Karl Barry Sharpless is 85 years old, born April 28, 1941 in Philadelphia, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Karl Barry Sharpless?
- Karl Barry Sharpless is a Taurus: born April 28, 1941, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Karl Barry Sharpless's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 28, 1941 birth.
- What is Karl Barry Sharpless's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Karl Barry Sharpless's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Karl Barry Sharpless's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Karl Barry Sharpless's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
