Karl Schwarzschild
Physicist, Astronomer
1873 – 1916
Who was Karl Schwarzschild?
Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist and astronomer. He is also the father of astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild.
He provided the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical non-rotating mass, which he accomplished in 1915, the same year that Einstein first introduced general relativity. The Schwarzschild solution, which makes use of Schwarzschild coordinates and the Schwarzschild metric, leads to a derivation of the Schwarzschild radius, which is the size of the event horizon of a non-rotating black hole.
Schwarzschild accomplished this triumph while serving in the German army during World War I. He died the following year from the autoimmune disease pemphigus, which he developed while at the Russian front.
Asteroid 837 Schwarzschilda is named in his honor.
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- Born
- Oct 9, 1873
Frankfurt - Also known as
- K. Schwarzschild
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Else Posenbach Schwarzschild
(1909/10/22 - )
- Else Posenbach Schwarzschild
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Died
- May 11, 1916
Potsdam
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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