Marshall Warren Nirenberg
Marshall Warren Nirenberg (born April 10, 1927, Brooklyn, United States; died 2010), was an American biochemist and geneticist. Nirenberg is best remembered for standard genetic code. Nirenberg's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Medal of Science and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Marshall Warren Nirenberg’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rabbit, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Marshall
Marshall Warren Nirenberg’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Marshall in the U.S.?
#340
US rank in 2025
~98,604
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
The SSA recorded 787 American boys and 8 girls named Marshall in 1927: 184th among boys and 3,765th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Marshall’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
9
Soul Urge · meaning
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Marshall’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
The record
What sets Marshall apart
Sadio Mané (1992) and Omar Sharif (1932) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Marshall, according to the stars
Core essence
Marshall leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Marshall is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Marshall 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 Marshall 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 Marshall wants to be loved
Marshall 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 Marshall is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Marshall creates
How Marshall 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. Marshall 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: Marshall is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Marshall is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Marshall scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Marshall's birth date. Working below.
Where Marshall sits
Six lines
Marshall’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Marshall Warren Nirenberg
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 88.8° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
Brooklyn 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 was at waxing gibbous, 70% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 26° down.
How unusual Marshall's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 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 →Marshall Warren Nirenberg at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Marshall Warren Nirenberg's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 10, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Marshall Warren Nirenberg was born on April 10, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Marshall Warren Nirenberg's birth date, April 10, 1927, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Marshall’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Marshall Warren Nirenberg's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Marshall Warren Nirenberg combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Marshall’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° 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
stableMercurysextileVenus0.4° to 0.6° orb
Marshall’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareNeptune1.1° to 2.3° orb
Marshall’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.7° to 2.2° orb
Marshall’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.4° to 3.2° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter2.9° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.9° to 4.3° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableMarssquareUranus4.0° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.4° to 5.7° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.5° to 6.5° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.6° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Marshall’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 0°58′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 20°56′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 5°29′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 7°29′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 4°03′ (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 0.3°
- Ceres trine Sun 1.1°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.2°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.6°
Marshall’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Marshall’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.
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.6°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 2.2°
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- Daniel BovetNobel Prize-winning pharmacologist and Esperantist
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on April 10
- Sadio Mané1992
- Omar Sharif1932
- Roberto Carlos1973
- Charlie Hunnam1980
- Aliko Dangote1957
- Dolores Huerta1930
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Other Evergreen Diplomats
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Marshall’s cards
Computed from April 10, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Marshall’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110060 (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 Hecht, Gerald V. (National Institutes of Health)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Marshall Warren Nirenberg at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Marshall Warren Nirenberg.
Quick answers about Marshall Warren Nirenberg’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Marshall Warren Nirenberg?
- Marshall Warren Nirenberg was an Aries: born April 10, 1927, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Marshall Warren Nirenberg's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 10, 1927 birth.
- What was Marshall Warren Nirenberg's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Marshall Warren Nirenberg's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Marshall Warren Nirenberg's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Marshall Warren Nirenberg's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
