Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nicolaas Bloembergen (born March 11, 1920, Dordrecht, Netherlands; died 2017), was a Dutch-born American physicist. Bloembergen's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award and National Medal of Science.
Nicolaas Bloembergen’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Nicolaas
Nicolaas Bloembergen’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Nicolaas in the U.S.?
#11609
US rank in 2025
~404
Americans share it since 1960
1996
its peak year
US records hold Nicolaas from 1960 onward, though not for 1920 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1996 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nicolaas’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
11
Soul Urge · insight
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on N (5) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nicolaas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver
The record
What sets Nicolaas apart
Rupert Murdoch (1931) and Didier Drogba (1978) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Nicolaas, according to the stars
Core essence
Nicolaas feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Nicolaas is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Nicolaas is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Nicolaas needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Nicolaas wants to be loved
Nicolaas wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Nicolaas be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Nicolaas creates
How Nicolaas makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Nicolaas creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Nicolaas 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Nicolaas is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Nicolaas runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Nicolaas's birth date. Working below.
Where Nicolaas sits
Six lines
Nicolaas’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Nicolaas Bloembergen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dordrecht 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 Dordrecht that night
Computed for 51.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Dordrecht at 9 p.m. that evening: Muscida of Ursa Major, within 11.3° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 51.8°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −38.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Dordrecht on any night.
The Moon, 59% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.
How unusual Nicolaas's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · Grand trine · Five planets retrograde
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 →Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Nicolaas Bloembergen's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 11, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Nicolaas Bloembergen was born on March 11, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Nicolaas Bloembergen's birth date, March 11, 1920, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Nicolaas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nicolaas Bloembergen's date-only chart is Mars square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Nicolaas Bloembergen combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Nicolaas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Sagittarius 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
stableMarssquareJupiter0.0° to 0.1° orb
Nicolaas’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMoonsquareSaturn0.1° to 6.6° orb
Nicolaas’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
Nicolaas’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn1.6° to 1.8° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableUranustrinePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.3° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.5° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Nicolaas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 5°29′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 21°08′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 18°11′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 15°10′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 15°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.1°
- Chiron square Pluto 0.2°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 0.8°
Nicolaas’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Nicolaas’s chart
Kite · Mars, Uranus, Pluto, SaturnA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
More people like Nicolaas
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More charts like Nicolaas’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Moira KellyAmerican actress (b. 1968)
- Henry TraversBritish-American actor
- Henry BergmanAmerican actor
Born in Monkey years
- Peter DebyeDutch-American physicist and physical chemist
- Jane AddamsAmerican feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer
- Richard WillstätterGerman chemist
Also born on March 11
- Rupert Murdoch1931
- Didier Drogba1978
- Johnny Knoxville1971
- Mark Rober1980
- Black Coffee1976
- Terrence Howard1969
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Josh PeckAmerican actor and comedian (born 1986)
- Adam RodríguezAmerican actor, writer, and director
- Jaime PresslyAmerican actress, model, and producer
Other Pisces Monkey charts
- Chelsea ClintonAmerican author and global health advocate
- Kailyn LowryAmerican television personality
- Emily OsmentAmerican actress and singer
- Sami SheenAmerican model and media personality
Other Steadfast Storytellers
- Svante August ArrheniusSwedish astronomer, chemist and physicist
- Alexander ProkhorovSoviet and Russian physicist
- Kurt WüthrichSwiss chemist (born 1938)
- Peter MansfieldEnglish physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Laura DernAmerican actress and producer
- Sam NeillNew Zealand actor
- Paavo NurmiFinnish middle and long distance runner
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Nicolaas’s cards
Computed from March 11, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nicolaas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q189987 (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 ... Vetter (Spaarnestad Photo), CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nicolaas Bloembergen at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nicolaas Bloembergen.
Quick answers about Nicolaas Bloembergen’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Nicolaas Bloembergen?
- Nicolaas Bloembergen was a Pisces: born March 11, 1920, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Nicolaas Bloembergen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 11, 1920 birth.
- What was Nicolaas Bloembergen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Nicolaas Bloembergen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Nicolaas Bloembergen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Nicolaas Bloembergen's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
