Percy Williams Bridgman
Percy Williams Bridgman (born April 21, 1882, Cambridge, United States; died 1961), was an American physicist. Bridgman's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Comstock Prize in Physics and Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship.
Percy Williams Bridgman’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Percy
Percy Williams Bridgman’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Percy in the U.S.?
#1279
US rank in 2025
~32,840
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 126 American boys named Percy in 1882: 116th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Percy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on P (7) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Percy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
White · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Percy apart
The Rumford Prize came in 1917, when Percy Williams Bridgman was 35.
Percy Williams Bridgman was taught at Newton North High School and Harvard University.
Percy Williams Bridgman lies at Bridgman Cemetery.
On the family side, Percy Williams Bridgman was married Olive Ware.
Wikipedia files Percy Williams Bridgman under 1961 suicides, Mathematicians from Massachusetts and Rheologists.
Elizabeth II (1926) and James McAvoy (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Newton North High School and Harvard University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1946), Elliott Cresson Medal (1932) and Comstock Prize in Physics (1933)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Prize in Physics
- Buried at
- Bridgman Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 80
What the chart says
Percy, according to the stars
Core essence
Percy 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 Percy 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, Percy processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Percy needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Percy wants to be loved
Percy wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Percy is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Percy creates
How Percy makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Percy creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Percy 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Percy 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Percy 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 Percy's birth date. Working below.
Where Percy sits
Six lines
Percy’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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Dedicate a star to Percy Williams Bridgman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cambridge 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 Cambridge that night
Computed for 42.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Cambridge at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Cambridge sits at 42.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −47.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cambridge on any night.
The Moon, 20% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cambridge, United States
The death is recorded at Randolph, Coös County in 1961.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Percy Williams Bridgman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Percy's chart is
Chart pattern score
79 / 100 · Rare
6-planet stellium in Taurus · 1 unaspected planet · A bowl chart
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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Percy Williams Bridgman's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 21, 1882, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Water Horse
Water HorseBright, restless, warm.
Percy Williams Bridgman was born on April 21, 1882, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Percy Williams Bridgman's birth date, April 21, 1882, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Percy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Percy Williams Bridgman's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six planets, Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Percy Williams Bridgman combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Percy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.2° to 1.3° orb
Percy’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareMars0.8° to 2.2° orb
Percy’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb
Percy’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineUranus1.0° to 2.2° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.6° to 1.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune1.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn2.1° to 3.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 5.8° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileMarsorb from 4.6° to 5.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth7 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Percy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 21°06′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 4°09′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°09′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 14°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 4°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.3°
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.5°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.4°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.9°
Percy’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn3 pts
3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Percy’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, 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.
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Percy’s cards
Computed from April 21, 1882. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Percy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q172118 (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.
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Quick answers about Percy Williams Bridgman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Percy Williams Bridgman?
- Percy Williams Bridgman was a Taurus: born April 21, 1882, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Percy Williams Bridgman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 21, 1882 birth.
- What was Percy Williams Bridgman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Percy Williams Bridgman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Percy Williams Bridgman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Percy Williams Bridgman's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
