William Giauque
William Giauque (born May 12, 1895, Niagara Falls, Canada; died 1982), was an American chemist. Giauque's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Willard Gibbs Award and Elliott Cresson Medal.
William Giauque’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with William
William Giauque’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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
The SSA recorded 7,277 American boys and 40 girls named William in 1895: 2nd among boys and 464th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What William’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
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
4 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
The record
What sets William apart
The Elliott Cresson Medal came in 1937, when William Giauque was 42.
Study took William Giauque to University of California, Berkeley.
Wikipedia files William Giauque under People from Niagara Falls, Ontario, UC Berkeley College of Chemistry faculty and American physical chemists.
Rishi Sunak (1980) and Dorothy Hodgkin (1910) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1949), Willard Gibbs Award (1951) and Elliott Cresson Medal (1937)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics and Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Citizenship
- Canada and United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 59
What the chart says
William, according to the stars
Core essence
William 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 William 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, William is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What William needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How William creates
How William makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. William creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: William is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. William 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means William does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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.
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 William Giauque
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Niagara Falls 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 Niagara Falls that night
Computed for 43.12°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Niagara Falls at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 9.5° of the exact zenith.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Niagara Falls sits at 43.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −46.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 82% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Niagara Falls, Canada
The death is recorded at Berkeley, Alameda County in 1982.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for William Giauque: 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
74 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Gemini · 2 planets at a critical degree · A bowl chart
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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
William Giauque's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 12, 1895, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatNeeds beauty like air.
William Giauque was born on May 12, 1895, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
William Giauque's birth date, May 12, 1895, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in William’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in William Giauque's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of about 3°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Fire.
- William Giauque combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
William’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Capricorn 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
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.1° to 7.6° orb
William’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.5° to 3.7° orb
William’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.7° to 2.9° orb
William’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionUranus3.4° to 4.4° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.8° orb
stableMarstrineUranus5.1° to 5.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.4° to 6.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.8° to 7.2° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 1.6° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 4.7° to 17.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.
William’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 2°56′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 10°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 21°34′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 24°20′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 25°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Mars 1.5°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.1°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.4°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.7°
William’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in William’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Mercury, Venus, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.8°
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
William’s cards
Computed from May 12, 1895. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
William’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110073 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by William Giauque.
Quick answers about William Giauque’s chart
- What zodiac sign was William Giauque?
- William Giauque was a Taurus: born May 12, 1895, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was William Giauque's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 12, 1895 birth.
- What was William Giauque's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was William Giauque's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was William Giauque's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was William Giauque's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
