Robert F. Furchgott
Robert F. Furchgott (born June 4, 1916, Charleston, United States; died 2009), was an American biochemist. Furchgott's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and Canada Gairdner International Award.
Robert F. Furchgott’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert F. Furchgott’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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
Robert ranked 4th among boys and 614th among girls in 1916, the year of this birth, with 31,741 American boys and 122 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
2
Soul Urge · closeness
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 6: tact against care.
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 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
The record
What sets Robert apart
Angelina Jolie (1975) and Russell Brand (1975) 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 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. Robert needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert 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. Robert gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Robert creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Robert channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Charleston 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 Charleston that night
Computed for 32.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Charleston at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 10.2° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 32.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −57.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Charleston on any night.
Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon up and 16% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Robert's chart is
Chart pattern score
13 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl · 1 planet 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 →Robert F. Furchgott at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Robert F. Furchgott's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 4, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Robert F. Furchgott was born on June 4, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Robert F. Furchgott's birth date, June 4, 1916, 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 F. Furchgott's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Robert F. Furchgott combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Robert’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
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonsquareJupiter0.1° to 5.9° orb
Robert’s feelings grind against their growth.
stableMarssextilePluto0.8° to 1.2° orb
Robert’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.3° to 2.8° orb
Robert’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.6° to 4.2° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.5° to 4.7° orb
stableSuntrineUranus5.5° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 1.8° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 5.0° to 16.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ ChironPisces 26°05′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 0°29′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 21°02′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 15°18′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 12°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.0°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.4°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.4°
- Hygiea trine Sun 1.6°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.9°
- Eros square Venus 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 2.7°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.9°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon6 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
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.
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 2.0°
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on June 4
- Angelina Jolie1975
- Russell Brand1975
- Noah Wyle1971
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Fellow Yang Water day masters
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- Wesley FrançaBrazilian footballer (born 2003)
Other Gemini Dragon charts
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Famous people with Life Path 9
- Peter AppelAmerican actor
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Robert’s cards
Computed from June 4, 1916. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108880 (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 Jzubrovich at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert F. Furchgott 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 F. Furchgott.
Quick answers about Robert F. Furchgott’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert F. Furchgott?
- Robert F. Furchgott was a Gemini: born June 4, 1916, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert F. Furchgott's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 4, 1916 birth.
- What was Robert F. Furchgott's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert F. Furchgott's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert F. Furchgott's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert F. Furchgott's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
