Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937, Zolochiv, Ukraine), aged 89, is a Polish-American Nobel laureate chemist and playwright. Hoffmann's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, William H. Nichols Medal and Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Roald Hoffmann’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Roald
Roald Hoffmann’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Roald in the U.S.?
—
outside the current top list
~189
Americans share it since 1912
1928
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Roald falls under that line for 1937. Its peak came in 1928, and 189 Americans have carried it since 1912.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Roald’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Roald’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1937, 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 Roald apart
Roald Hoffmann took the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry in 1969, at 32.
Training came by way of Stuyvesant High School and Columbia University.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Roald Hoffmann: Fellows of the American Chemical Society, Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) and Eli Lilly and Company people.
Nelson Mandela (1918) and Priyanka Chopra (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Stuyvesant High School, Columbia University and Harvard University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1981), National Medal of Science (1983) and Priestley Medal (1990)
- Citizenship
- United States and Second Polish Republic
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
What the chart says
Roald, according to the stars
Core essence
Roald feels the room before entering it. The core of Roald 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 Roald, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Roald wants to be loved
Roald wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Roald like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Roald creates
How Roald makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Roald creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Roald is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Roald is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Roald runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Roald's birth date. Working below.
Where Roald sits
Six lines
Roald’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Roald Hoffmann
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Zolochiv 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 Zolochiv that night
Computed for 49.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Zolochiv at 9 p.m. that evening: Edasich of Draco, within 9.4° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
Zolochiv sits at 49.8°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −40.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Zolochiv on any night.
Sun -2° below the horizon, Moon up and 80% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Zolochiv, Ukraine
- Lives in
- Ithaca
Wikidata records Ithaca as Roald Hoffmann's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Roald Hoffmann: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Roald's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Roald Hoffmann's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 18, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Roald Hoffmann was born on July 18, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Roald Hoffmann's birth date, July 18, 1937, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Roald’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roald Hoffmann's date-only chart is Mars sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Roald Hoffmann combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Roald’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableMoontrinePluto0.1° to 6.2° orb
Roald’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.1° to 0.5° orb
Roald’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.3° to 2.2° orb
Roald’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableSuntrineMars2.6° to 3.3° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter2.7° to 3.8° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.6° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus4.1° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune5.4° to 6.5° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.8° to 6.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.1° to 6.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Roald’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 27°10′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 28°42′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 28°27′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 7°02′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 1°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.9°
Roald’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Roald’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 quintile Uranus 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.1°
More people like Roald
Other playwrights
- Wole Soyinka1934
- Jason Miller1939
- Ossie Davis1917
- Timothy Busfield1957
- George Bernard Shaw1856
Born in Ukraine
- Vladimir Drinfeldmathematician from the former Ukrainian SSR, who emigrated to the United States and is currently working at the University of Chicago
- Nathan MilsteinAmerican musician
- Mikhail FridmanRussian–Israeli businessman, billionaire, and oligarch
- Shmuel Yosef AgnonUkrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature
- Jan KoumUkrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
- Stanisław LemPolish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor
More charts like Roald’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- William O. DappingAmerican journalist
- James Forman, Jr.American author and professor
- Mark S. WatsonAmerican editor and correspondent
Born in Ox years
- Carey MulliganEnglish actress
- Bernard ArnaultFrench entrepreneur
- Sam AltmanAmerican venture capitalist
Also born on July 18
- Nelson Mandela1918
- Priyanka Chopra1982
- Kristen Bell1980
- Richard Branson1950
- Elsa Pataky1976
- Noah Lyles1997
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Kristen DouteAmerican actress
- Ty Dolla SignAmerican singer and rapper (born 1982)
- Abby ElliottAmerican actress
Other Cancer Ox charts
- Tim SettleAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Tory TaylorAustralian gridiron football player (born 1997)
- Keisean NixonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- T. J. HockensonAmerican football player (born 1997)
Other Radiant Visionarys
- Jack RosenthalJournalist, government official, executive
- Danish SiddiquiIndian photojournalist
- John StefflerCanadian poet
- Dale FaughnAmerican poet laureate from Kentucky
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Becki NewtonAmerican actress
- Dorinda MedleyAmerican television personality
- Ilona MaherAmerican rugby player
From the journal: Is astrology real or fake? · Sect: day charts vs night charts
Roald’s cards
Computed from July 18, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Roald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q273279 (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 . The original uploader was Xtreambar at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roald Hoffmann at Wikipedia and roaldhoffmann.com.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Roald Hoffmann.
Quick answers about Roald Hoffmann’s chart
- How old is Roald Hoffmann?
- Roald Hoffmann is 89 years old, born July 18, 1937 in Zolochiv, Ukraine.
- What zodiac sign is Roald Hoffmann?
- Roald Hoffmann is a Cancer: born July 18, 1937, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Roald Hoffmann's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 18, 1937 birth.
- What is Roald Hoffmann's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Roald Hoffmann's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Roald Hoffmann's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Roald Hoffmann's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
