Karl Schwarzschild
1873 – 1916 · aged 43
German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873–1916)
- Born
- 9 Oct 1873 · Frankfurt
- Died
- 11 May 1916 · Potsdam
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- 9 Oct 1873BornBorn in Frankfurt
- 1911AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- 11 May 1916DiedDied in Potsdam
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Major world events during their lifetime (1873 – 1916).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
Biography
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.
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