Paul D. Boyer
Paul D. Boyer (born July 31, 1918, Provo, United States; died 2018), was an American biochemist. Boyer's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Glenn T. Seaborg Medal and Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry.
Paul D. Boyer’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul D. Boyer’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Paul in the U.S.?
#262
US rank in 2025
~1,404,135
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
The SSA recorded 11,755 American boys and 70 girls named Paul in 1918: 14th among boys and 861st among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Paul’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 7: voice against analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Gold · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1918, 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 Paul apart
The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1955, when Paul D. Boyer was 37.
The schooling ran through Provo High School and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Cause of death is recorded as respiratory failure.
On the family side, Paul D. Boyer was born to Dell Delos Boyer.
Wikipedia files Paul D. Boyer under Provo High School alumni, Chemists from Utah and People from Provo, Utah.
J. K. Rowling (1965) and Lil Uzi Vert (1995) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Provo High School, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Brigham Young University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1997), Glenn T. Seaborg Medal (1998) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1955)
- Cause of death
- respiratory failure
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 55
What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Paul is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul 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. Paul gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Paul creates
How Paul 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. Paul 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: Paul is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Paul is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Paul fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Paul's birth date. Working below.
Where Paul sits
Six lines
Paul’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 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 Paul D. Boyer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Provo 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 Provo that night
Computed for 40.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Provo was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 74.6° up.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Provo sits at 40.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Provo on any night.
Sun 3° below the horizon, Moon down and 33% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Provo, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2018.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Paul D. Boyer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Leo
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 →Paul D. Boyer at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Paul D. Boyer's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 31, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Paul D. Boyer was born on July 31, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Paul D. Boyer's birth date, July 31, 1918, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul D. Boyer's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Paul D. Boyer combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.1° to 1.0° orb
Paul’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.4° to 1.3° orb
Paul’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.7° to 1.9° orb
Paul’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.9° to 3.1° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn3.2° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableMarstrineUranus6.1° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 5.0° to 17.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 3°13′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 26°25′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 11°05′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 23°52′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 10°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.0°
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.0°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.6°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.7°
- Eros conjunction Venus 2.8°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Paul’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Saturn, NeptuneThree 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 quintile Mars 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Mars quintile Neptune 1.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on July 31
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- Lil Uzi Vert1995
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Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- James ChadwickEnglish physicist, who discovered the neutron in 1932
- F. W. de Klerk7th state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994
- Sigrid UndsetNorwegian writer
Other Leo Horse charts
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- Casey KreiterAmerican football player
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Wolfgang Pauliphysicist, Nobel prize winner
- Gustav StresemannGerman politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- John FennAmerican analytical chemist
- Frits ZernikeDutch physicist
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Haji WrightAmerican soccer player (born 1998)
- Rodrigo BentancurUruguayan association football player
- Romano SchmidAustrian association football player
From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Paul’s cards
Computed from July 31, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
3 · Storyteller☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q102395 (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 GBHayes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul D. Boyer at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Paul D. Boyer.
Quick answers about Paul D. Boyer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul D. Boyer?
- Paul D. Boyer was a Leo: born July 31, 1918, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Paul D. Boyer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 31, 1918 birth.
- What was Paul D. Boyer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul D. Boyer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Paul D. Boyer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul D. Boyer's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
