Willis Lamb
Willis Lamb (born July 12, 1913, Los Angeles, United States; died 2008), was an American physicist. Lamb's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Einstein Prize for Laser Science and National Medal of Science.
Willis Lamb’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Willis
Willis Lamb’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Willis in the U.S.?
#2567
US rank in 2025
~53,154
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
In 1913, 573 American boys and 10 girls were registered Willis — 136th among boys and 2,157th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Willis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on W (5) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Willis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1913, 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 Willis apart
The Rumford Prize came in 1953, when Willis Lamb was 40.
Willis Lamb was taught at Los Angeles High School and University of California, Berkeley.
On Wikipedia the categories read Wykeham Professors of Physics, UC Berkeley College of Chemistry alumni and University of Arizona faculty.
Pablo Neruda (1904) and Vinícius Júnior (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Los Angeles High School and University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1955), Einstein Prize for Laser Science (1992) and National Medal of Science (2000)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 74
What the chart says
Willis, according to the stars
Core essence
Willis feels the room before entering it. The core of Willis is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Willis, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Willis feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Willis needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Willis wants to be loved
Willis wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Willis like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Willis creates
How Willis makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Willis builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Willis is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Willis is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Willis 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 Willis's birth date. Working below.
Where Willis sits
Six lines
Willis’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 Willis Lamb
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Kornephoros stood nearest the zenith over Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.6° above the horizon in Hercules.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
Los Angeles sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Los Angeles on any night.
The Moon, 75% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 19° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Los Angeles, United States
The death is recorded at Tucson, Pima County in 2008.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Willis Lamb: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Willis's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Mercury · 1 unaspected planet
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
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Willis Lamb's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 12, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Willis Lamb was born on July 12, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Willis Lamb's birth date, July 12, 1913, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Willis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Willis Lamb's date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Willis Lamb combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Willis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° 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
stableSunsextileMars1.1° to 1.4° orb
Willis’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenustrineUranus1.3° to 2.3° orb
Willis’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.0° to 2.5° orb
Willis’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysquareMars3.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.2° to 6.1° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter6.1° to 6.9° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.7° to 6.9° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 1.5° to 15.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Willis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°51′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 18°09′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 12°21′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 19°03′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°49′ (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 0.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.5°
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.8°
- Ceres trine Sun 1.7°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.8°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.9°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.9°
Willis’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Willis’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, 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.
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.0°
- Mercury quintile Venus 1.2°
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Willis’s cards
Computed from July 12, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Willis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q186497 (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 Willis Lamb at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Willis Lamb.
Quick answers about Willis Lamb’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Willis Lamb?
- Willis Lamb was a Cancer: born July 12, 1913, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Willis Lamb's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 12, 1913 birth.
- What was Willis Lamb's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Willis Lamb's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Willis Lamb's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Willis Lamb's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
