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Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist and astronomer.
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science · German physicist (1873–1916) · physicist · astronomer · astrophysicist · university teacher · mathematician · also Karl Schwarzschild, Karl Scharzschild, Schwarzschild
Born 9 October 1873 · Died 11 May 1916 · Q57145
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2025· 3 entries
spektrum.de: Karl Schwarzschild: Zwischen Party und Planeten
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Nature: Karl Schwarzschild Observatory (TLS)
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2024· 1 entry
idw: Karl-Schwarzschild-Medaille 2024 für Anton Zensus
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2020· 1 entry
Pro-physik: Karl-Schwarzschild-Medaille für Friedrich-Karl Thielemann
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2016· 1 entry
spektrum.de: Karl Schwarzschild. Wegbereiter der Astrophysik
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2013· 2 entries
Pro-physik: Karl-Schwarzschild-Medaille an Karl-Heinz Rädler
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idw: Karl-Schwarzschild-Medaille an Karl-Heinz Rädler verliehen
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1973· 1 entry
“The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time”
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1946· 1 entry
Moved to New Zealand, where she became a classics professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin
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1916· 2 entries
Died 1916-05-11.
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Einstein wrote to Schwarzschild on this result:
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1915· 2 entries
Began to suffer from pemphigus, a rare and painful autoimmune skin-disease
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The same year that Einstein first introduced general relativity
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1914· 1 entry
Schwarzschild volunteered for service in the German army despite being over 40 years old
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1911· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1911).
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1906· 1 entry
Schwarzschild developed the concept of radiative equilibrium between convection inside the Sun and thermal radiation at the surface
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1899· 1 entry
Returned to Munich to complete his Habilitation
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1897· 1 entry
Schwarzschild developed a formula, now known as the Schwarzschild law, to calculate the optical density of photographic material
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1896· 1 entry
Studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1893–1896).
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1893· 1 entry
Studied at University of Strasbourg (1891–1893).
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1890· 1 entry
Attended the University of Strasbourg to study astronomy
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1873· 1 entry
Born 1873-10-09.
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