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Zhores Alferov

Zhores Alferov (born March 15, 1930, Vitebsk, Belarus; died 2019), was a Soviet-Russian physicist. Alferov served as member of the State Duma. Alferov's honours include Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class, Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad" and Stuart Ballantine Medal.

Zhores Alferov’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Zhores Alferov’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Explorer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

Zhores’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver

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What the chart says

Zhores, according to the stars

Core essence

Zhores feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Zhores is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Zhores wants to be loved

Zhores wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Zhores creates

How Zhores 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. Zhores 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: Zhores is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Zhores 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 "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Zhores goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

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

Where Zhores sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Zhores

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Zhores

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

PrivateExpressive
Zhores

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Zhores

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Zhores

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Zhores

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Zhores Alferov

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

Zhores’s birth-night reference starMuscidayellow · Ursa MajorMuscida, in Ursa Major. A yellow star, 84.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Muscida →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 18.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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.

The quick version

Pisces Sun

Kind, porous, easily flooded.

Zhores Alferov's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 15, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Metal Horse

Bright, restless, warm.

Zhores Alferov was born on March 15, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Zhores Alferov's birth date, March 15, 1930, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Zhores’s chart

Zhores’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Zhores Alferov, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.3° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.4° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 0.5° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.1° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.8° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.1° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 6.6° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 6.7° orbSun in Pisces · 24°06′☉24°Moon in Libra · 2°35′☽2°Mercury in Pisces · 8°59′☿8°Venus in Aries · 3°05′♀3°Mars in Aquarius · 28°34′♂28°Jupiter in Gemini · 9°17′♃9°Saturn in Capricorn · 10°46′♄10°Uranus in Aries · 10°21′♅10°Neptune in Virgo · 1°37′ · retrograde♆℞1°Pluto in Cancer · 17°30′ · retrograde♇℞17°

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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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.

  • stableMoonoppositionVenus0.0° to 7.1° orb

    Zhores’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Zhores’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus0.4° orb

    Zhores’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn1.0° to 2.6° orb

    Zhores’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus1.0° to 1.1° orb

    Zhores’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune2.6° to 3.5° orb

    Zhores’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus6.7° to 7.9° orb

    Zhores’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto6.7° to 6.8° orb

    Zhores’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.6° to 15.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 1.0° to 15.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 1.7° to 15.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Zhores’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.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 11°04′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Zhores building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 12°58′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Zhores feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 23°22′ (moves 0.58° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Zhores is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 24°50′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Zhores feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 3°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Zhores at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.1°
  • Chiron trine Saturn 0.3°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 2.1°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 2.6°

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°).

Zhores’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. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Zhores is read as tuned to what is not said.

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 Zhores’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.9°
  • Sun quintile Saturn 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.4°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 1.5°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.5°

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

Born the same day as Zhores

Martin Karplus was born on March 15, 1930 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Zhores’s cards

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The Fool

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Horse 午

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Zhores Alferov, 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

Zhores’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q183279, 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 Рустем Кадыров, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Zhores Alferov at Wikipedia.

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 Zhores Alferov.

Quick answers about Zhores Alferov’s chart

What zodiac sign was Zhores Alferov?
Zhores Alferov was a Pisces: born March 15, 1930, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
What was Zhores Alferov's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 15, 1930 birth.
What time was Zhores Alferov 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 Zhores Alferov's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the March 15, 1930 birth date.
What was Zhores Alferov's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 15, 1930 birth date.
Where was Zhores Alferov's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Zhores Alferov's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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