Karl Schwarzschild Medal
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The Karl Schwarzschild Medal, named after the astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild
, is an award presented by the Astronomische Gesellschaft
(German Astronomical Society) to eminent astronomers and astrophysicists.
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist. He is also the father of astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild.He is best known for providing 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...
, is an award presented by the Astronomische Gesellschaft
Astronomische Gesellschaft
The Astronomische Gesellschaft is an astronomical society established in 1863 in Heidelberg, the second oldest astronomical society after the Royal Astronomical Society....
(German Astronomical Society) to eminent astronomers and astrophysicists.
Recipients
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2010 | Michel Mayor Michel Mayor Dr. Michel G. E. Mayor is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory of Geneva... |
| 2009 | Rolf-Peter Kudritzki |
| 2008 | Rashid Sunyaev Rashid Sunyaev Rashid Alievich Sunyaev was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, on March 1, 1943 to a Tatar family, and educated at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Moscow State University . He became a professor at MIPT in 1974... |
| 2007 | Rudolf Kippenhahn Rudolf Kippenhahn Rudolf Kippenhahn is a German astrophysicist and science author.-Biography:Professor Dr. Rudolf Kippenhahn originally studied mathematics and physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg before changing to Astronomy... |
| 2005 | Gustav Andreas Tammann |
| 2004 | Riccardo Giacconi Riccardo Giacconi Riccardo Giacconi is an Italian/American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He is currently a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.- Biography :... |
| 2003 | Erika Boehm-Vitense |
| 2002 | Charles H. Townes |
| 2001 | Keiichi Kodaira |
| 2000 | Roger Penrose Roger Penrose Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College... |
| 1999 | Jeremiah P. Ostriker Jeremiah P. Ostriker Jeremiah Paul Ostriker is an astrophysicist at Princeton University. He received his B.A. from Harvard, his Ph.D at the University of Chicago, and then carried out post-doctoral work at the University of Cambridge. From 1971 to 1995, Ostriker was a professor at Princeton, and served as Provost... |
| 1998 | Peter A. Strittmatter |
| 1997 | Joseph H. Taylor Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation."... |
| 1996 | Kip Thorne Kip Thorne Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of scientists... |
| 1995 | Hendrik C. van de Hulst Hendrik C. van de Hulst Hendrik Christoffel "Henk" van de Hulst FRS was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician.... |
| 1994 | Joachim Trümper |
| 1993 | Raymond Wilson Raymond Wilson (physicist) Raymond N. Wilson is an English physicist and telescope optics designer. His first degree was in physics from the University of Birmingham, followed by studying engineering at Imperial College... |
| 1992 | Fred Hoyle Fred Hoyle Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an English astronomer and mathematician noted primarily for his contribution to the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and his often controversial stance on other cosmological and scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term originally... |
| 1990 | Eugene N. Parker |
| 1989 | Martin J. Rees |
| 1987 | Lodewijk Woltjer Lodewijk Woltjer Lodewijk Woltjer studied at the University of Leiden under Jan Oort earning a PhD in astronomy in 1957 with a thesis on the Crab Nebula. This was followed by post-doctoral research appointments to various American universities and the subsequent appointment of professor of theoretical astrophysics... |
| 1986 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS ) was an Indian origin American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars... |
| 1985 | Edwin E. Salpeter |
| 1984 | Daniel M. Popper |
| 1983 | Donald Lynden-Bell Donald Lynden-Bell Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS is an English astrophysicist, best known for his theories that galaxies contain massive black holes at their centre, and that such black holes are the principal source of energy in quasars. He was a co-recipient, with Maarten Schmidt, of the inaugural Kavli Prize for... |
| 1982 | Jean Delhaye |
| 1981 | Bohdan Paczyński Bohdan Paczynski Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer, a leading scientist in theory of the evolution of stars, accretion discs and gamma ray bursts.... |
| 1980 | Ludwig Biermann Ludwig Biermann Ludwig Franz Benedict Biermann was a German astronomer.He made important contributions to astrophysics and plasma physics... |
| 1978 | George B. Field George B. Field George B. Field is an American astrophysicist.- Education and career :Field became interested in astronomy at an early age, but at the urging of his father he studied chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Disliking engineering, he later switched to astrophysics... |
| 1977 | Wilhelm Becker |
| 1975 | Lyman Spitzer Lyman Spitzer Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. was an American theoretical physicist and astronomer best known for his research in star formation, plasma physics, and in 1946, for conceiving the idea of telescopes operating in outer space... |
| 1974 | Cornelis de Jager Cornelis de Jager -Education:He spent his school years in the Dutch East Indies. From 1939 to 1945 he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy at Utrecht University. On 13 October 1952 he obtained his Ph. D. with a thesis called 'The Hydrogen Spectrum of the Sun'... |
| 1972 | Jan H. Oort Jan Oort Jan Hendrik Oort was a Dutch astronomer. He was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy. The Oort cloud of comets bears his name.... |
| 1971 | Antony Hewish Antony Hewish Antony Hewish FRS is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars... |
| 1969 | Bengt Strömgren Bengt Strömgren Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist.Bengt Strömgren was born in Gothenburg. His parents were Hedvig Strömgren and Svante Elis Strömgren, who was professor of astronomy at the University of Copenhagen and director of the University Observatory in Copenhagen... |
| 1968 | Maarten Schmidt Maarten Schmidt Maarten Schmidt is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of quasars.Born in Groningen, The Netherlands, Schmidt studied with Jan Hendrik Oort. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Leiden Observatory in 1956.... |
| 1963 | Charles Fehrenbach Charles Fehrenbach (astronomer) Charles Fehrenbach was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was director of the Observatoire de Haute Provence until 1983.... |
| 1959 | Martin Schwarzschild Martin Schwarzschild Martin Schwarzschild was a German American astronomer. He was the son of famed astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild and the nephew of the Swiss astrophysicist Robert Emden.-Biography:... (son of Karl Schwarzschild) |