Leon M. Lederman
Leon M. Lederman (born July 15, 1922, New York City, United States; died 2018), was an American mathematician and physicist. Lederman's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Guggenheim Fellowship and Enrico Fermi Award.
Leon M. Lederman’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Leon
Leon M. Lederman’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Leon in the U.S.?
#138
US rank in 2025
~184,074
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
In 1922, 2,521 American boys and 31 girls were registered Leon — 77th among boys and 1,487th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Leon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
22
Soul Urge · legacy
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on L (3) 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
Leon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · 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 Leon apart
The National Medal of Science came in 1965, when Leon M. Lederman was 43.
Leon M. Lederman was taught at James Monroe High School and City College of New York.
Cause of death is recorded as dementia.
On Wikipedia the categories read Illinois Institute of Technology faculty, James Monroe High School (New York City) alumni and Members of JASON (advisory group).
Mario Kempes (1954) and Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- James Monroe High School, City College of New York and Columbia University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1988), National Medal of Science (1965) and Wolf Prize in Physics (1982)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Cause of death
- dementia
- Sport
- chess
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 76
What the chart says
Leon, according to the stars
Core essence
Leon feels the room before entering it. The core of Leon is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Leon, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Leon wants to be loved
Leon 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 Leon and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Leon creates
How Leon 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. Leon 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: Leon 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 9 is the humanitarian. Leon is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Leon 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 Leon's birth date. Working below.
Where Leon sits
Six lines
Leon’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 Leon M. Lederman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.2° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 61% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 6° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Rexburg, Madison County in 2018.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Leon M. Lederman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Leon's chart is
Chart pattern score
79 / 100 · Rare
Yod onto Uranus · 3-planet stellium in Cancer · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Leon M. Lederman at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Leon M. Lederman's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 15, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Leon M. Lederman was born on July 15, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Leon M. Lederman's birth date, July 15, 1922, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Leon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Leon M. Lederman's date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Leon M. Lederman combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Leon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Pisces or Aries 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
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb
Leon’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.0° to 0.1° orb
Leon’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquarePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb
Leon’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableMarssquareUranus2.2° orb
stableUranustrinePluto3.4° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.7° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Leon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 17°29′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 29°37′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 18°13′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 2°51′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 21°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.0°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.2°
- Ceres trine Mercury 2.6°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.7°
Leon’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Leon’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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.
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.
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.2°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 2.1°
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Famous people with Life Path 9
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Leon’s cards
Computed from July 15, 1922. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
9 · Healer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Leon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192695 (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 FNAL, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Leon M. Lederman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Leon M. Lederman?
- Leon M. Lederman was a Cancer: born July 15, 1922, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Leon M. Lederman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 15, 1922 birth.
- What was Leon M. Lederman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Leon M. Lederman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Leon M. Lederman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Leon M. Lederman's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
