Robert B. Laughlin
Robert B. Laughlin (born November 1, 1950, Visalia, United States), aged 76, is an American physicist. Laughlin is best known for Effet Hall quantique. Laughlin's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award and Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.
Robert B. Laughlin’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert B. Laughlin’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Robert in the U.S.?
#92
US rank in 2025
~4,869,849
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1950, Robert came 2nd among boys and 594th among girls, carried by 83,553 American boys and 203 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Robert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
The record
What sets Robert apart
Aishwarya Rai (1973) and Tim Cook (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert does not do surface. The core of Robert is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Robert is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Robert even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Robert 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: Robert is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Robert 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Robert has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Robert's birth date. Working below.
Where Robert sits
Six lines
Robert’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Robert B. Laughlin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Visalia 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 Visalia that night
Computed for 36.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Visalia was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 81.5° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
From 36.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −53.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 58% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 48° below the horizon.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Scorpio
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 →Robert B. Laughlin at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Robert B. Laughlin's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 1, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Robert B. Laughlin was born on November 1, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Robert B. Laughlin's birth date, November 1, 1950, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert B. Laughlin's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert B. Laughlin combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.4° orb
Robert’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
Robert’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.3° orb
Robert’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.7° to 1.4° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn1.2° to 1.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.9° to 3.3° orb
stableVenustrineUranus3.0° to 4.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto7.9° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 1.1° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 19°35′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 27°40′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 17°59′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 1°38′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°48′ (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°
- Chiron trine Pluto 0.2°
- Ceres square Saturn 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 1.7°
- Eros square Pluto 1.8°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.5°
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Robert’s cards
Computed from November 1, 1950. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q189997 (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 Linda A. Cicero / Stanford News Service, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert B. Laughlin at Wikipedia, profiles.stanford.edu and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert B. Laughlin.
Quick answers about Robert B. Laughlin’s chart
- How old is Robert B. Laughlin?
- Robert B. Laughlin is 76 years old, born November 1, 1950 in Visalia, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Robert B. Laughlin?
- Robert B. Laughlin is a Scorpio: born November 1, 1950, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Robert B. Laughlin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 1, 1950 birth.
- What is Robert B. Laughlin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Robert B. Laughlin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Robert B. Laughlin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert B. Laughlin's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
