Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain (born July 10, 1920, San Francisco, United States; died 2006), was an American physicist. Chamberlain's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Guggenheim Fellowship and Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Owen Chamberlain’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Owen
Owen Chamberlain’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Owen in the U.S.?
#31
US rank in 2025
~246,320
Americans share it since 1880
2016
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1920, Owen came 217th, carried by 598 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Owen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on O (6) 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
Owen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
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 1920, 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 Owen apart
Owen Chamberlain took the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959, at 39.
Germantown Friends School and Dartmouth College shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as Parkinson's disease; the grave is at Mountain View Cemetery.
The family line: born to Genevieve Lucinda Owen and William Edward Chamberlain.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Owen Chamberlain: Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area, Burials at Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California) and Deaths from Parkinson's disease in California.
Nikola Tesla (1856) and Alice Munro (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Germantown Friends School, Dartmouth College and University of Chicago
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1959)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Cause of death
- Parkinson's disease
- Buried at
- Mountain View Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 71
What the chart says
Owen, according to the stars
Core essence
Owen feels the room before entering it. The core of Owen is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Owen, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Owen is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Owen needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Owen wants to be loved
Owen wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Owen gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Owen creates
How Owen makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Owen creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Owen 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 11 is the visionary, a master number. Owen 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.
Computed from Owen's birth date. Working below.
Where Owen sits
Six lines
Owen’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 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.
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 Owen Chamberlain
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Francisco 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 San Francisco that night
Computed for 37.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over San Francisco at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.0° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
Of the 80 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 37.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 29% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- San Francisco, United States
The death is recorded at Berkeley, Alameda County in 2006.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Owen Chamberlain: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Owen's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · 1 unaspected planet · No Air planets
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Owen Chamberlain's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 10, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Owen Chamberlain was born on July 10, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Owen Chamberlain's birth date, July 10, 1920, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Owen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Owen Chamberlain's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Owen Chamberlain combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Owen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Taurus 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
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.3° to 0.5° orb
Owen’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.6° orb
Owen’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.8° to 2.1° orb
Owen’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranustrinePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMarstrineUranus5.1° to 5.5° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 2.0° to 15.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Owen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 10°29′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 9°29′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 3°11′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 20°17′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 29°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.1°
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.5°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 2.1°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.9°
Owen’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ♅ Uranus3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Owen’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Venus, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.8°
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Owen’s cards
Computed from July 10, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
11 · Visionary☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Owen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q183655 (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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Owen Chamberlain at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Owen Chamberlain.
Quick answers about Owen Chamberlain’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Owen Chamberlain?
- Owen Chamberlain was a Cancer: born July 10, 1920, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Owen Chamberlain's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 10, 1920 birth.
- What was Owen Chamberlain's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Owen Chamberlain's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Owen Chamberlain's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Owen Chamberlain's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
