Konstantin Novoselov
Konstantin Novoselov (born August 23, 1974, Nizhny Tagil, Russia), aged 52, is a Russian-British physicist known for graphene work. Novoselov's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Knight Bachelor and Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
Konstantin Novoselov’s zodiac sign is Leo or Virgo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Wood Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Konstantin
How common is the name Konstantin in the U.S.?
#4966
US rank in 2025
~668
Americans share it since 1967
2015
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Konstantin falls under that line for 1974. Its peak came in 2015, and 668 Americans have carried it since 1967.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Konstantin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on K (2) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Konstantin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1974, 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 Konstantin apart
The Innovators Under 35 came in 2008, when Konstantin Novoselov was 34.
The schooling ran through Correspondence Physics and Technology School at MIPT and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Wikipedia files Konstantin Novoselov under Russian emigrants to the United Kingdom, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni and Recipients of the Dalton Medal.
Kobe Bryant (1978) and River Phoenix (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Correspondence Physics and Technology School at MIPT, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Radboud University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2010), Leverhulme Medal (2013) and Innovators Under 35 (2008)
- Citizenship
- Russia and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English and Russian
- Wikipedia editions
- 72
What the chart says
Konstantin, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Konstantin feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Konstantin needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Konstantin wants to be loved
Konstantin wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Konstantin openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Konstantin creates
How Konstantin 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. Konstantin 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: Konstantin is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Konstantin is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Konstantin 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 Konstantin's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Konstantin Novoselov
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nizhny Tagil 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 Nizhny Tagil that night
Computed for 57.92°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Nizhny Tagil was Grumium, in Draco, 88.0° up.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Nizhny Tagil sits at 57.9°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −32.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon up and 40% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Nizhny Tagil, Russia
- Lives in
- Manchester · Singapore
Wikidata records Manchester and Singapore as Konstantin Novoselov'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 Konstantin Novoselov: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Konstantin's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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
Leo or Virgo Sun
Konstantin Novoselov was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Tiger
Wood TigerLeads by moving.
Konstantin Novoselov was born on August 23, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Konstantin Novoselov's birth date, August 23, 1974, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Konstantin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Konstantin Novoselov's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
Konstantin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Scorpio 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
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.1° to 0.4° orb
Konstantin’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.3° to 2.2° orb
Konstantin’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° to 1.6° orb
Konstantin’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.7° to 2.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.8° to 2.6° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune2.7° to 3.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.4° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 2.3° to 13.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Konstantin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°13′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 10°05′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 23°14′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 8°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 11°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.6°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 1.4°
Konstantin’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Konstantin’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.
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
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Fellow Yang Fire day masters
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Konstantin’s cards
Computed from August 23, 1974. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Konstantin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106494 (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 Zp2010, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Konstantin Novoselov at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Konstantin Novoselov.
Quick answers about Konstantin Novoselov’s chart
- How old is Konstantin Novoselov?
- Konstantin Novoselov is 52 years old, born August 23, 1974 in Nizhny Tagil, Russia.
- What zodiac sign is Konstantin Novoselov?
- Konstantin Novoselov was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Konstantin Novoselov's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 23, 1974 birth.
- What is Konstantin Novoselov's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Konstantin Novoselov's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Konstantin Novoselov's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Konstantin Novoselov's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
