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Schwarzschild, Karl

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Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

Born Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 9 October 1873

Died Potsdam, Germany, 11 May 1916

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Schwarzschild, Karl. Reproduced by permission of Springer-Verlag (Karl Schwarzschild as a young man in Munich, 1900)

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  1. Kuffner Sternwarte, Wien, Austria

    Peter Habison

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Habison, P. (2014). Schwarzschild, Karl. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1247

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