Roger D. Kornberg
Roger D. Kornberg (born April 24, 1947, St. Louis, United States), aged 79, is an American biochemist. Kornberg's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and Welch Award in Chemistry.
Roger D. Kornberg’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Roger
Roger D. Kornberg’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Roger in the U.S.?
#834
US rank in 2025
~443,830
Americans share it since 1880
1953
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1947, Roger came 25th among boys and 1,537th among girls, carried by 12,760 American boys and 38 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Roger’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
22
Soul Urge · legacy
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on R (9) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Roger’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
White · Blush · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 Roger apart
Roger D. Kornberg took the Novartis-Drew Award in 1990, at 43.
Training came by way of Stanford University and Harvard University.
On the family side, Roger D. Kornberg was born to Arthur Kornberg.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Roger D. Kornberg: Scientists from St. Louis, Chemists from Missouri and Annual Reviews (publisher) editors.
The same date carries Josep Borrell. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Stanford University and Harvard University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2006), Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize (2005) and Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2006)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 67
What the chart says
Roger, according to the stars
Core essence
Roger is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Roger is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Roger processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Roger needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Roger creates
How Roger makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Roger creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Roger is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Roger is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Roger gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Roger's birth date. Working below.
Where Roger sits
Six lines
Roger’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Roger D. Kornberg
Three stars chosen from the real sky above St. Louis 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 St. Louis that night
Computed for 38.63°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at St. Louis at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 9.9° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from St. Louis on any night.
Sun 23° below the horizon, Moon up and 20% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Roger's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Roger D. Kornberg's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 24, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Roger D. Kornberg was born on April 24, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Roger D. Kornberg's birth date, April 24, 1947, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Roger’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roger D. Kornberg's date-only chart is Mars opposition Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Roger D. Kornberg combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Roger’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Gemini 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
stableMarsoppositionNeptune0.7° to 1.5° orb
Roger’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrinePluto0.7° to 1.5° orb
Roger’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareSaturn0.9° to 1.8° orb
Roger’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.2° to 2.9° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn2.2° to 3.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.7° to 3.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.4° to 5.1° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.8° to 5.1° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.6° to 14.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 1.9° to 14.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Roger’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 5°39′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 5°34′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 26°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 18°21′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 9°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.6°
- Chiron opposition Sun 1.9°
Roger’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Roger’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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.8°
Roger’s family here
One relative of Roger D. Kornberg also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Roger
Josep Borrell was born on April 24, 1947 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 38.6°N, the sky above St. Louis stops at −51.4° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Roger’s cards
Computed from April 24, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Roger’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q170676 (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 Рустем Кадыров, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roger D. Kornberg at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Roger D. Kornberg.
Quick answers about Roger D. Kornberg’s chart
- How old is Roger D. Kornberg?
- Roger D. Kornberg is 79 years old, born April 24, 1947 in St. Louis, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Roger D. Kornberg?
- Roger D. Kornberg is a Taurus: born April 24, 1947, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Roger D. Kornberg's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 24, 1947 birth.
- What is Roger D. Kornberg's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Roger D. Kornberg's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Roger D. Kornberg's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Roger D. Kornberg's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
