PHYSICIST

Karl Schwarzschild

1873 - 1916

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Schwarzschild has received more than 752,597 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Karl Schwarzschild is the 149th most popular physicist (down from 145th in 2019), the 504th most popular biography from Germany (up from 542nd in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Physicist.

Karl Schwarzschild is most famous for his solution to the Schwarzschild metric, which is a solution to Einstein's equations of general relativity. This solution describes the gravitational field outside a spherical mass.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Karl Schwarzschild ranks 149 out of 851. Before him are Kip Thorne, Jacques Charles, Georges Charpak, Pavel Cherenkov, Hannes Alfvén, and Simon van der Meer. After him are Willard Boyle, Johann Jakob Balmer, Albert Fert, Hans Geiger, Maurice Wilkins, and Arthur Compton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Karl Schwarzschild ranks 14. Before him are Alexis Carrel, Thomas Andrews, Luigi Lucheni, Henri Barbusse, Alfred Jarry, and Otto Loewi. After him are Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Julius Martov, G. E. Moore, Max Reger, and Spyridon Louis. Among people deceased in 1916, Karl Schwarzschild ranks 21. Before him are Sholem Aleichem, Charles de Foucauld, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Otto of Bavaria, Natsume Sōseki, and José Echegaray. After him are Elisabeth of Wied, Enrique Granados, Émile Verhaeren, Charles Taze Russell, Ivan Franko, and Max Reger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Schwarzschild ranks 504 out of 7,253. Before him are Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (1075), Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515), Maximilian von Weichs (1881), Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), and Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847). After him are Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Erwin Panofsky (1892), Frank Farian (1941), Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856), Henning von Tresckow (1901), and Rabanus Maurus (780).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Karl Schwarzschild ranks 24. Before him are Julius von Mayer (1814), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Ernst Abbe (1840), Walther Bothe (1891), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), and George Paget Thomson (1892). After him are Hans Geiger (1882), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Klaus Fuchs (1911), Gerd Binnig (1947), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), and Polykarp Kusch (1911).

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