Robert Hofstadter
Robert Hofstadter (born February 5, 1915, New York City, United States; died 1990), was an American physicist and Nobel laureate. Hofstadter's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Robert Hofstadter’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Robert
Robert Hofstadter’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
The SSA recorded 28,737 American boys and 116 girls named Robert in 1915: 4th among boys and 609th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Robert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on R (9) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
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
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1915, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Born on the Li Chun day itself with no birth time on record, so the year is not settled and this is the later reading. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Robert apart
The Nobel Prize in Physics came in 1961, when Robert Hofstadter was 46.
The schooling ran through DeWitt Clinton High School and City College of New York.
Robert Hofstadter lies at Home of Peace Cemetery.
The family line: raised one child.
Wikipedia files Robert Hofstadter under University of Pennsylvania staff, Stanford University Department of Physics faculty and Scientists from New York City.
Cristiano Ronaldo (1985) and Neymar (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- DeWitt Clinton High School, City College of New York and Princeton University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1961), National Medal of Science (1986) and Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics (1987)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Buried at
- Home of Peace Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 71
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Robert is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Robert and watch them fall for you again.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Robert creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Robert is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Robert goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Hofstadter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 85.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 63% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Stanford, Santa Clara County in 1990.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Robert Hofstadter: 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
71 / 100 · Rare
Yod onto Neptune · 3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 3 planets 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Robert Hofstadter's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 5, 1915, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Robert Hofstadter was born on February 5, 1915, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Robert Hofstadter's birth date, February 5, 1915, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Hofstadter's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Earth.
- Robert Hofstadter combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableJupitertrinePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
Robert’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.9° to 1.9° orb
Robert’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.0° to 1.7° orb
Robert’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn2.8° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto3.1° to 4.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.5° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune6.0° to 6.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.5° to 7.2° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 16°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 16°30′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 3°58′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 21°19′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 18°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.1°
- Eros square Mars 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.8°
Robert’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mars, UranusThree 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.
Yod onto Neptune · Venus, Jupiter, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.8°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
Robert’s family here
One relative of Robert Hofstadter also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why · Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say
Robert’s cards
Computed from February 5, 1915. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q130113 (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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Hofstadter 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 Hofstadter.
Quick answers about Robert Hofstadter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Robert Hofstadter?
- Robert Hofstadter was an Aquarius: born February 5, 1915, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Robert Hofstadter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 5, 1915 birth.
- What was Robert Hofstadter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Robert Hofstadter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Robert Hofstadter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Robert Hofstadter's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
