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Karl Schwarzschild
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German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873–1916)
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Karl
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Place of birth
- Frankfurt
- Place of death
- Potsdam
- Child
- Martin Schwarzschild
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Educated at
- Lessing-Gymnasium
- Languages spoken
- German
- Doctoral advisor
- Hugo von Seeliger
- Doctoral student
- Emanuel von der Pahlen
- Field of work
- quantum mechanics
- Image
- Schwarzschild.jpg
- Work location
- Potsdam
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- described by source
- Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon
- Commons category
- Karl Schwarzschild
- date of birth
- 1873-10-09
- date of death
- 1916-05-11
- name in native language
- Karl Schwarzschild
- place of burial
- Göttingen City Cemetery
- writing language
- German
- cause of death
- pemphigus
- described at URL
- www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/s/scharzschild.htm
- manner of death
- disease
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- Commons Creator page
- Karl Schwarzschild
- archives at
- Göttingen State and University Library
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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