What zodiac sign was Luis Walter Alvarez?

Luis Walter Alvarez was a Gemini: born June 13, 1911, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig.

What was Luis Walter Alvarez's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 13, 1911 birth.

What time was Luis Walter Alvarez born?

02:45 local time in San Francisco, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).

What was Luis Walter Alvarez's rising sign?

Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 02:45 birth time in San Francisco, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).

What was Luis Walter Alvarez's Life Path number?

Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the June 13, 1911 birth date.

What was Luis Walter Alvarez's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Pisces at 7°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 13, 1911 birth time.

Where was Luis Walter Alvarez's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 20°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What was Luis Walter Alvarez's dominant planet?

Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Luis Walter Alvarez

Luis Walter Alvarez (born June 13, 1911, San Francisco, United States, 02:45; died 1988), was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor. Alvarez served as president and university teacher. Alvarez's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Inventors Hall of Fame and National Medal of Science.

Luis Walter Alvarez’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Luis Walter Alvarez’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Explorer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Luis in the U.S.?

#144

US rank in 2025

~294,500

Americans share it since 1880

2007

its peak year

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Luis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Luis, according to the stars

Core essence

Luis is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Luis needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Luis is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Luis needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Luis wants to be loved

Luis 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 Luis openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Luis creates

How Luis 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. Luis 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: Luis is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Luis is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Luis gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Luis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Luis sits

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Intimate circleWide network

Luis

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous

Luis

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive

Luis

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Luis

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary

Luis

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Luis

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Francisco on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Luis’s birth-sky starSadryellow-white · CygnusSadr, in Cygnus. A yellow-white star, 85.3° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Sadr →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 16.9° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

Read from the sky above San Francisco at 02:45, the birth time on Luis Walter Alvarez’s AA-rated record. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Gemini Sun

Four conversations, one person.

Luis Walter Alvarez's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

Metal Pig

Generous to the last coin.

Luis Walter Alvarez was born on June 13, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 4

Plans, then plans the plan.

Luis Walter Alvarez's birth date, June 13, 1911, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Luis’s chart

Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Luis Walter Alvarez's timed chart: Venus in the 4th house, Jupiter in the 7th house and Saturn in the 1st house.
The tightest major aspect in Luis Walter Alvarez's timed chart is Venus square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
Luis Walter Alvarez combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.

Luis’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantTaurus

The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

VenussquareJupiterapplying · 0.2° orb
Luis’s affections grind against their growth.
MoonsquareMarsseparating · 0.4° orb
Luis’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MercurytrineUranusseparating · 1.9° orb
Luis’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
VenustrineMarsapplying · 2.6° orb
Luis’s affections flow straight into their drive.
MoonsextileJupiterseparating · 2.8° orb
Luis’s feelings open doors for their growth.
MercurysextileVenusapplying · 4.5° orb
Luis’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunconjunctionPlutoapplying · 6.0° orb
Luis’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenusoppositionUranusseparating · 6.3° orb
Luis’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
JupitersquareUranusapplying · 6.5° orb
Luis’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoontrineSaturnapplying · 7.0° orb
Luis’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

Chart signature

Elements

Fire2 of 10
Earth3 of 10
Air3 of 10
Water2 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal4 of 10
Fixed3 of 10
Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Luis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s.

⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 7°02′ · House 11
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Luis absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresGemini 10°38′ · House 2
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Luis feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosGemini 5°54′ · House 2
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Luis is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 20°40′ · House 8
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Luis is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 20°06′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Luis leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

Hygiea opposition Sun 0.6°
Eros sextile Venus 0.8°
Chiron sextile Moon 1.0°
Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.2°
Eros sextile Mars 1.7°
Chiron trine Jupiter 1.8°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Luis’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Saturn; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; disposes Moon, Uranus; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Luis is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

How the score is built

Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Luis’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

Stellium in Gemini · 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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated.

Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.1°
Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
Sun biquintile Uranus 1.4°
Moon biquintile Mercury 1.5°
Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.5°
Mars quincunx Jupiter 2.4°

Luis’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Taurus	Venus in Leo, house 4	Saturn	self, body, how you arrive
2	Gemini	Mercury in Gemini, house 2	Sun, Mercury, Pluto	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Cancer	Moon in Capricorn, house 9	Neptune	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Leo	Sun in Gemini, house 2	Venus	home, family, roots
5	Virgo	Mercury in Gemini, house 2	empty	creativity, romance, play
6	Libra	Venus in Leo, house 4	empty	work, habits, health
7	Scorpio	Pluto in Gemini, house 2	Jupiter	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Scorpio, house 7	empty	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Capricorn	Saturn in Taurus, house 1	Moon, Uranus	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Aquarius	Uranus in Capricorn, house 9	empty	career, reputation, public life
11	Pisces	Neptune in Cancer, house 3	empty	friends, community, the future
12	Aries	Mars in Aries, house 12	Mars	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Luis’s cards

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Western zodiac

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

丑

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Luis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q178344, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Portrait by Donald Cooksey / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (per [3], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Luis Walter Alvarez at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

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Quick answers about Luis Walter Alvarez’s chart

What zodiac sign was Luis Walter Alvarez?: Luis Walter Alvarez was a Gemini: born June 13, 1911, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig.
What was Luis Walter Alvarez's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 13, 1911 birth.
What time was Luis Walter Alvarez born?: 02:45 local time in San Francisco, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Luis Walter Alvarez's rising sign?: Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 02:45 birth time in San Francisco, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Luis Walter Alvarez's Life Path number?: Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the June 13, 1911 birth date.
What was Luis Walter Alvarez's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Pisces at 7°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 13, 1911 birth time.
Where was Luis Walter Alvarez's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 20°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Luis Walter Alvarez's dominant planet?: Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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Core essence

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How Luis wants to be loved

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Triggers

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What stands out in Luis’s chart

Luis’s birth chart

Aspects, tightest first

Chart signature

Luis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Luis’s dominant planets

Configurations in Luis’s chart

Minor aspects

Luis’s houses

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