Niels Kaj Jerne
Niels Kaj Jerne (born December 23, 1911, London, United Kingdom; died 1994), was a Danish immunologist. Jerne's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Marcel Benoist Prize and Canada Gairdner International Award.
Niels Kaj Jerne’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Niels
Niels Kaj Jerne’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Niels in the U.S.?
#6060
US rank in 2025
~1,462
Americans share it since 1893
1957
its peak year
US records hold Niels from 1893 onward, though not for 1911 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1957 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Niels’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
Niels’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1911, 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 Niels apart
The Canada Gairdner International Award came in 1970, when Niels Kaj Jerne was 59.
Niels Kaj Jerne was taught at Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Copenhagen.
Wikipedia files Niels Kaj Jerne under Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Danish medical researchers and Medical doctors from Rotterdam.
Finn Wolfhard (2002) and Eddie Vedder (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Copenhagen and Leiden University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1984), Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1982) and Canada Gairdner International Award (1970)
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Languages
- Danish
- Wikipedia editions
- 57
What the chart says
Niels, according to the stars
Core essence
Niels is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Niels is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Niels wants to be loved
Niels wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Niels even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Niels creates
How Niels 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. Niels 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: Niels 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 11 is the visionary, a master number. Niels is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Niels is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Niels's birth date. Working below.
Where Niels sits
Six lines
Niels’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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Niels Kaj Jerne
Three stars chosen from the real sky above London 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 London that night
Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mirfak stood nearest the zenith over London at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.1° above the horizon in Perseus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 9% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- London, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Castillon-du-Gard, canton of Remoulins in 1994.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Niels Kaj Jerne: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Niels's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · Five planets retrograde · 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 →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Niels Kaj Jerne's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 23, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Metal Pig
Metal PigGenerous to the last coin.
Niels Kaj Jerne was born on December 23, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Nervy, gifted, tuned high.
Niels Kaj Jerne's birth date, December 23, 1911, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Niels’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Niels Kaj Jerne's date-only chart is Mars sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Niels Kaj Jerne combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Niels’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableVenusoppositionSaturn1.4° to 2.6° orb
Niels’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb
Niels’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunoppositionPluto2.1° to 3.1° orb
Niels’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineUranus3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 6.2° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.8° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.9° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 2.5° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleJupitersextileUranusorb from 4.9° to 5.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 6.4° to 18.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Niels’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 3°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 2°27′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 24°07′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 23°47′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 11°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.2°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Eros opposition Mars 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.8°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 0.8°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.2°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.5°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.6°
Niels’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun2 pts
2 major aspects
Configurations in Niels’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Mars 0.0°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.0°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.7°
More people like Niels
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Born in United Kingdom
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Niels’s cards
Computed from December 23, 1911. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
11 · Visionary♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Niels’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q309876 (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 Niels K. Jernes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Niels Kaj Jerne at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Niels Kaj Jerne.
Quick answers about Niels Kaj Jerne’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Niels Kaj Jerne?
- Niels Kaj Jerne was a Capricorn: born December 23, 1911, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Niels Kaj Jerne's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 23, 1911 birth.
- What was Niels Kaj Jerne's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Niels Kaj Jerne's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Niels Kaj Jerne's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Niels Kaj Jerne's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
