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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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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
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Robert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Robert sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Robert F. Furchgott, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Robert’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrineUranus3.6° to 4.2° orb
Robert’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.5° to 4.7° orb
Robert’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineUranus5.5° to 6.4° orb
Robert’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 26°05′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Robert absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresCancer 0°29′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Robert is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosAries 21°02′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Robert is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaLibra 15°18′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Robert is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 12°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Robert guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Robert’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Robert is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert F. Furchgott, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Robert’s cards
Every card is computed from June 4, 1916, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Robert F. Furchgott, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108880, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
- 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 time was Robert F. Furchgott born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Robert F. Furchgott's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the June 4, 1916 birth date.
- What was Robert F. Furchgott's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 4, 1916 birth date.
- 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.
