Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz (born November 2, 1932, New York City, United States; died 2006), was an American experimental physicist. Schwartz's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Guggenheim Fellowship and John Jay Award.
Melvin Schwartz’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Melvin
Melvin Schwartz’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Melvin in the U.S.?
#959
US rank in 2025
~247,075
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
Melvin ranked 51st among boys and 1,256th among girls in 1932, the year of this birth, with 3,776 American boys and 34 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Melvin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on M (4) 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
Melvin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
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 1932, 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 Melvin apart
Melvin Schwartz took the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, at 56.
The classrooms behind this chart: Bronx High School of Science and Columbia University.
Cause of death is recorded as hepatitis; the grave is at Ketchum Cemetery.
Wikipedia's editors put Melvin Schwartz under Infectious disease deaths in Idaho, People from Ketchum, Idaho and Deaths from Parkinson's disease in Idaho.
Shah Rukh Khan (1965) and David Schwimmer (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Bronx High School of Science and Columbia University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1988)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Cause of death
- hepatitis
- Buried at
- Ketchum Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 65
What the chart says
Melvin, according to the stars
Core essence
Melvin does not do surface. The core of Melvin is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Melvin is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Melvin 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 Melvin needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Melvin wants to be loved
Melvin wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Melvin gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Melvin creates
How Melvin makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Melvin creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Melvin is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Melvin is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Melvin leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Melvin fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Melvin's birth date. Working below.
Where Melvin sits
Six lines
Melvin’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 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.
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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.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 77.7° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 99 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°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 New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 27% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 47° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Twin Falls, Twin Falls County in 2006.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Melvin Schwartz: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Melvin's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 planets 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.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Melvin Schwartz's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 2, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Melvin Schwartz was born on November 2, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Melvin Schwartz's birth date, November 2, 1932, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Melvin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Melvin Schwartz's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Melvin Schwartz combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Melvin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsextileNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Melvin’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.2° to 1.6° orb
Melvin’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.8° to 0.9° orb
Melvin’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.2° to 2.3° orb
stableUranussquarePluto2.8° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.4° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.0° to 5.9° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune7.2° to 7.4° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Melvin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 26°57′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 22°03′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 22°53′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 19°07′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 20°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.4°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 1.4°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.5°
- Chiron trine Saturn 2.0°
- Chiron square Mars 2.6°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.9°
Melvin’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Melvin’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.
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.3°
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Melvin’s cards
Computed from November 2, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Melvin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q189741 (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 AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Melvin Schwartz at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Melvin Schwartz.
Quick answers about Melvin Schwartz’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Melvin Schwartz?
- Melvin Schwartz was a Scorpio: born November 2, 1932, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Melvin Schwartz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 2, 1932 birth.
- What was Melvin Schwartz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Melvin Schwartz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Melvin Schwartz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Melvin Schwartz's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
