Paul Lauterbur
Paul Lauterbur (born May 6, 1929, Sidney, United States; died 2007), was an American chemist. Lauterbur is best remembered for magnetic resonance imaging. Lauterbur's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award and Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine.
Paul Lauterbur’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Paul
Paul Lauterbur’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Architect
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
In 1929, 12,431 American boys and 91 girls were registered Paul — 13th among boys and 734th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Paul’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on P (7) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
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
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
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 1929, 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
magnetic resonance imaging. That is the work the name is attached to.
The schooling ran through Case Western Reserve University and Sidney High School.
The record gives kidney disease as the cause, and Graceland Cemetery as the resting place.
On Wikipedia the categories read Howard N. Potts Medal recipients, Winners of the Heineken Prize and People from Sidney, Ohio.
Dave Anderson shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- magnetic resonance imaging
- Educated at
- Case Western Reserve University, Sidney High School and University of Pittsburgh
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2003), Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1984) and Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine (1989)
- Cause of death
- kidney disease
- Buried at
- Graceland Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
What the chart says
Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Paul is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Paul is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Paul runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Paul needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Paul wants to be loved
Paul wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Paul creates
How Paul makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Paul creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Paul is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Paul is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Paul does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Paul Lauterbur
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sidney 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 Sidney that night
Computed for 40.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Sidney was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 88.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
Sidney sits at 40.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Sidney at all: they sit past the −49.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 7% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 4° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Sidney, United States
The death is recorded at Urbana, Champaign County in 2007.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Paul Lauterbur: 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
20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Venus 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Paul Lauterbur's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 6, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Paul Lauterbur was born on May 6, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Paul Lauterbur's birth date, May 6, 1929, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Paul Lauterbur's date-only chart is Sun sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Paul Lauterbur combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Aries 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
stableSunsextilePluto0.4° to 1.3° orb
Paul’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
Paul’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareMars4.0° to 4.8° orb
Paul’s affections grind against their drive.
stableJupitersextilePluto4.8° to 5.0° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune5.2° to 6.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter5.4° to 6.1° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.6° to 5.8° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune6.4° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.3° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 4.1° to 18.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 10°13′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 2°29′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 7°46′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 28°43′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 28°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.2°
- Hygiea square Saturn 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 1.6°
- Eros square Uranus 1.7°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.2°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.5°
Paul’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Paul’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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Sun quintile Mars 1.1°
Born the same day as Paul
Dave Anderson was born on May 6, 1929 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Sidney sits at 40.3°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Other Gilded Architects
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Famous people with Life Path 5
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Paul’s cards
Computed from May 6, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106547 (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 Bush6NobelLaureates.jpg: Tina Hager derivative work: Elinnea (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Paul Lauterbur 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 Lauterbur.
Quick answers about Paul Lauterbur’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Paul Lauterbur?
- Paul Lauterbur was a Taurus: born May 6, 1929, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Paul Lauterbur's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 6, 1929 birth.
- What was Paul Lauterbur's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Paul Lauterbur's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Paul Lauterbur's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Paul Lauterbur's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
