Robert Coleman Richardson
Robert Coleman Richardson (born June 26, 1937, Washington, D.C., United States; died 2013), was an American physicist. Richardson's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Eagle Scout and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Robert Coleman Richardson’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Coleman Richardson’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, 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 1937, Robert came 1st among boys and 441st among girls, carried by 61,842 American boys and 223 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
3
Soul Urge · being heard
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange
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 Robert apart
Robert Coleman Richardson took the Simon Memorial Prize in 1976, at 39.
Washington-Liberty High School and Virginia Tech College of Science shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Robert Coleman Richardson: Washington-Liberty High School alumni, Virginia Tech alumni and Cornell Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics.
Ariana Grande (1993) and Aubrey Plaza (1984) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Washington-Liberty High School, Virginia Tech College of Science and Duke University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1996), Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1981) and Simon Memorial Prize (1976)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 66
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert feels the room before entering it. The core of Robert 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 Robert, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert 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 Robert is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Robert builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert 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 7 is the seeker. Robert is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Robert 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 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 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 Robert Coleman Richardson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Washington at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 38.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Washington on any night.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 91% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 4° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Washington, D.C., United States
The death is recorded at Ithaca, Tompkins County in 2013.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert Coleman Richardson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Mars retrograde
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.
Robert Coleman Richardson's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 26, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Robert Coleman Richardson was born on June 26, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Robert Coleman Richardson's birth date, June 26, 1937, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Coleman Richardson's date-only chart is Sun square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Robert Coleman Richardson combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableSunsquareSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Robert’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionMars0.1° to 1.1° orb
Robert’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineNeptune2.1° to 3.0° orb
Robert’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune3.1° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.6° to 5.6° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.9° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.9° to 6.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus7.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 6.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 1.0° to 13.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 25°17′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 0°18′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 16°52′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 29°23′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 29°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.9°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Robert’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 Mars 0.1°
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.2°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 1.5°
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Robert’s cards
Computed from June 26, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192708 (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 Silin2005, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Coleman Richardson at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Robert Coleman Richardson.
Quick answers about Robert Coleman Richardson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Coleman Richardson?
- Robert Coleman Richardson was a Cancer: born June 26, 1937, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Coleman Richardson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 26, 1937 birth.
- What was Robert Coleman Richardson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Coleman Richardson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Coleman Richardson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Coleman Richardson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
