Back كارل شفارتسشيلد Arabic كارل شفارتسشيلد ARZ Karl Şvartsşild Azerbaijani کارل شوارتزشیلد AZB Карл Шварцшыльд Byelorussian Карл Шварцшилд Bulgarian কার্ল শোয়ার্জশিল্ড Bengali/Bangla Karl Schwarzschild Breton Karl Schwarzschild Catalan Karl Schwarzschild Czech
Karl Schwarzschild | |
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| Born | 9 October 1873 Frankfurt am Main, German Empire |
| Died | 11 May 1916 (aged 42)[1]: xix Potsdam, German Empire |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich University of Strasbourg |
| Known for | Schwarzschild metric Schwarzschild coordinates Schwarzschild radius Schwarzschild law Interior Schwarzschild metric Schwarzschild's equation for radiative transfer Schwarzschild telescope Conic constant Lagrangian of electromagnetism |
| Children | 3, including Agathe and Martin |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics Astronomy |
| Doctoral advisor | Hugo von Seeliger |
Karl Schwarzschild (German: [kaʁl ˈʃvaʁtsʃɪlt] ⓘ; 9 October 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German physicist and astronomer.
Schwarzschild 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 while serving in the German army during World War I. He died the following year, possibly from the autoimmune disease pemphigus, which he developed while at the Russian front.[2][3]
Asteroid 837 Schwarzschilda is named in his honour, as is the large crater Schwarzschild, on the far side of the Moon.[4]
- ^ Biography of Karl Schwarzschild by Indranu Suhendro, The Abraham Zelmanov Journal, 2008, Volume 1.
- ^ Snygg, John (2012). A new approach to differential geometry using Clifford's geometric algebra. New York: Springer Science. p. 400. doi:10.1007/978-0-8176-8283-5. ISBN 978-0-8176-8283-5.
- ^ Ahsan, Zafar (2015). Tensors : mathematics of differential geometry and relativity. Delhi: Prentice Hall India. p. 205. ISBN 9788120350885.
- ^ "Crater Schwarzschild". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.