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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

William ranked 2nd among boys and 609th among girls in 1911, the year of this birth, with 10,593 American boys and 50 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What William’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

33

Personality · warm authority

The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

William’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

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 1911, 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 William apart

William Alfred Fowler took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954, at 43.

Ohio State University and California Institute of Technology shaped the training.

Wikipedia's editors put William Alfred Fowler under Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge, California Institute of Technology fellows and Vetlesen Prize winners.

Whitney Houston (1963) and Gillian Anderson (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Ohio State University and California Institute of Technology
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (1983), National Medal of Science (1974) and Bruce Medal (1979)
Nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physics
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
75

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. Working below.

Where William sits

Six lines

William’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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

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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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Pittsburgh that night

Computed for 40.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Vega stood nearest the zenith over Pittsburgh at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.3° above the horizon in Lyra.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Pittsburgh on any night.

The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 16° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Pittsburgh, United States

The death is recorded at Pasadena, Los Angeles County in 1995.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William Alfred Fowler: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual William's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · T-square onto Mars

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.

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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.

What Leo means →

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.

What the Pig means →

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.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in William’s chart

William’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Aquarius depending on the hour.

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.

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableVenussextileNeptune2.9° to 3.3° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto3.0° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn3.3° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.7° to 4.2° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.4° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn5.4° to 5.8° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus6.9° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 5°31′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 3°57′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

William’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in William’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.5°
  • Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.9°

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William’s cards

Computed from August 9, 1911. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Guardian

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q46120 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was William Alfred Fowler's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What was William Alfred Fowler's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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