Richard Smalley
Richard Smalley (born June 6, 1943, Akron, United States; died 2005), was an American chemist. Smalley's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, John Scott Award and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Richard Smalley’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Goat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard Smalley’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Richard in the U.S.?
#234
US rank in 2025
~2,587,082
Americans share it since 1880
1946
its peak year
The SSA recorded 46,339 American boys and 119 girls named Richard in 1943: 5th among boys and 701st among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Richard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Richard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, 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 Richard apart
The Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics came in 1991, when Richard Smalley was 48.
The schooling ran through Southwest High School and Southwest Early College Campus.
Cause of death is recorded as chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Wikipedia files Richard Smalley under Deaths from leukemia in Texas, Christian Old Earth creationists and Scientists from Akron, Ohio.
Ryan Higa (1990) and QTCinderella (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Southwest High School, Southwest Early College Campus and Hope College
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996), Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics (1991) and Glenn T. Seaborg Medal (2002)
- Cause of death
- chronic lymphocytic leukemia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Richard needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard 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. Richard gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Richard creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Richard is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Richard gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Richard's birth date. Working below.
Where Richard sits
Six lines
Richard’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 Richard Smalley
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Akron 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 Akron that night
Computed for 41.07°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Akron was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 85.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
Akron sits at 41.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Akron on any night.
Sun 1° below the horizon, Moon up and 15% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Akron, United States
- Lived in
- Akron
Wikidata records Akron as Richard Smalley's home, Akron among them.
The death is recorded at Houston, Harris County in 2005.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Richard Smalley: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
54 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · 2 planets 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 →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Richard Smalley's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 6, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Richard Smalley was born on June 6, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Richard Smalley's birth date, June 6, 1943, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Smalley's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Richard Smalley combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Cancer or Leo 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
stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 7.3° orb
Richard’s feelings and growth act as one.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
Richard’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 8.0° orb
Richard’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranussextilePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.4° to 1.2° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus1.5° to 2.5° orb
stableMarstrinePluto1.8° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableMarssextileUranus2.0° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.6° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Richard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 24°43′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°01′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 20°35′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 14°10′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 1°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.7°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 2.3°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.4°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon6 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Richard’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Saturn, 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 semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.8°
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From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Richard’s cards
Computed from June 6, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106746 (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 RonnieV, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Smalley at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard Smalley.
Quick answers about Richard Smalley’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Smalley?
- Richard Smalley was a Gemini: born June 6, 1943, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Richard Smalley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 6, 1943 birth.
- What was Richard Smalley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard Smalley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Richard Smalley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Smalley's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
