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William Alfred Fowler

William Alfred Fowler (born August 9, 1911, Pittsburgh, United States; died 1995), was an American nuclear physicist. Fowler's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science and Bruce Medal.

William Alfred Fowler’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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William Alfred Fowler’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Guardian

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name William in the U.S.?

#9

US rank in 2025

~4,215,725

Americans share it since 1880

1947

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

William, according to the stars

Core essence

William is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of William is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, William needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What William needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How William wants to be loved

William wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with William and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How William creates

How William makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. William creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: William 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. William is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means William is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from William's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where William sits

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Intimate circleWide network
William

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
William

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
William

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
William

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
William

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
William

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to William Alfred Fowler

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pittsburgh on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

William’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 81.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 20.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

William Alfred Fowler's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 9, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Metal Pig

Generous to the last coin.

William Alfred Fowler was born on August 9, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 2

Holds the room together.

William Alfred Fowler's birth date, August 9, 1911, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.

What stands out in William’s chart

William’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for William Alfred Fowler, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Mars · Square, 0.2° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.3° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.5° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 2.7° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.1° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.2° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.7° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.9° orbSun in Leo · 15°58′☉15°Moon in Aquarius · 11°15′☽11°Mercury in Virgo · 13°05′☿13°Venus in Virgo · 25°19′♀25°Mars in Taurus · 15°47′♂15°Jupiter in Scorpio · 6°43′♃6°Saturn in Taurus · 19°43′♄19°Uranus in Capricorn · 26°37′ · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Cancer · 22°13′♆22°Pluto in Gemini · 28°32′♇28°

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.4° orb

    William’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableVenustrineUranus1.0° to 1.6° orb

    William’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurytrineMars2.4° to 3.0° orb

    William’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.5° orb

    William’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune2.9° to 3.3° orb

    William’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquarePluto3.0° to 3.5° orb

    William’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn3.3° to 4.2° orb

    William’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.7° to 4.2° orb

    William’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.4° orb

    William’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn5.4° to 5.8° orb

    William’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus6.9° orb

    William’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

William’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 5°31′ (moves 0.04° 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 William absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 3°57′ (moves 0.39° 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. William is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.

  • ♡ ErosCancer 26°33′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. William is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 15°13′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. William is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 26°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has William leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

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.

  • Eros opposition Uranus 0.1°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 0.8°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 1.2°
  • Eros sextile Venus 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.2°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.1°
  • Ceres trine Jupiter 2.8°

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°).

William’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. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: William is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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 William’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.

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Venus, Saturn, Uranus, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.

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 sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.5°
  • Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for William Alfred Fowler, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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William’s cards

Every card is computed from August 9, 1911, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

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Judgement

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The Gilded Guardian

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for William Alfred Fowler, 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

William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q46120, 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 Federal Government of the United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same William Alfred Fowler at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by William Alfred Fowler.

Quick answers about William Alfred Fowler’s chart

What zodiac sign was William Alfred Fowler?
William Alfred Fowler was a Leo: born August 9, 1911, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig.
What was William Alfred Fowler's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 9, 1911 birth.
What time was William Alfred Fowler 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 William Alfred Fowler's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the August 9, 1911 birth date.
What was William Alfred Fowler's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 9, 1911 birth date.
Where was William Alfred Fowler's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was William Alfred Fowler's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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