The Karl Schwarzschild Medal, named after the astrophysicist

Karl Schwarzschild Karl Schwarzschild (; 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-r ...

, is an award presented by the Astronomische Gesellschaft (German Astronomical Society) to eminent astronomers and astrophysicists.

Recipients

Source
German Astronomical Society
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Friedrich-Karl Thielemann Friedrich-Karl "Friedel“ Thielemann (born 17 April 1951 in Mülheim an der Ruhr) is a German-Swiss theoretical astrophysicist. Thielemann studied at the TH Darmstadt, where he in 1976 he acquired his Diplom. In 1980 he earned his PhD under Wo ...

, - , 2019, , Ewine van Dishoeck , - , 2018, , Andrzej Udalski , - , 2017, , , - , 2016, , Robert Williams , - , 2015, , , - , 2014, ,

Margaret Geller Margaret J. Geller (born December 8, 1947) is an American astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. Her work has included pioneering maps of the nearby universe, studies of the relationship between galaxies and their ...

, - , 2013, , Karl-Heinz Rädler , - , 2012, ,

Sandra M. Faber Sandra Moore Faber (born December 28, 1944) is an American astrophysicist known for her research on the evolution of galaxies. She is the University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and works a ...

, - , 2011, , Reinhard Genzel , - , 2010, ,

Michel Mayor Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor (; born 12 January 1942) is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory ...

, - , 2009, , Rolf-Peter Kudritzki , - , 2008, , Rashid Sunyaev , - , 2007, ,

Rudolf Kippenhahn Rudolf Kippenhahn (24 May 1926 – 15 November 2020) was a German astrophysicist and science author. Biography Rudolf Kippenhahn was born in Pernink, Czechoslovakia. He originally studied mathematics and physics at the University of Erlangen-Nu ...

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Gustav Andreas Tammann Gustav Andreas Tammann (24 July 1932 – 6 January 2019) was a German astronomer and academic. He served as director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Basel; as a member of the European Space Agency Space Telescope Advisory Team ...

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Riccardo Giacconi Riccardo Giacconi ( , ; October 6, 1931 – December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University. Biography Born in ...

, - , 2003, , Erika Boehm-Vitense , - , 2002, ,

Charles H. Townes Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American physicist. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated wi ...

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Roger Penrose Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, an emeritus fello ...

, - , 1999, ,

Jeremiah P. Ostriker Jeremiah Paul "Jerry" Ostriker (born April 13, 1937) is an American astrophysicist and a professor of astronomy at Columbia University and is the Charles A. Young Professor ''Emeritus'' at Princeton where he also continues as a senior research s ...

, - , 1998, , Peter A. Strittmatter , - , 1997, , Joseph H. Taylor , - , 1996, , Kip Thorne , - , 1995, ,

Hendrik C. van de Hulst Hendrik Christoffel "Henk" van de Hulst (19 November 1918 – 31 July 2000) was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician. In 1944, while a student in Utrecht, he predicted the existence of the 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral interstellar hydrogen. ...

, - , 1994, , {{ill, Joachim Trümper, de , - , 1993, , Raymond Wilson , - , 1992, , Fred Hoyle , - , 1990, , Eugene N. Parker , - , 1989, , Martin J. Rees , - , 1987, , Lodewijk Woltjer , - , 1986, ,

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (; ) (19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who spent his professional life in the United States. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler for "... ...

, - , 1985, , Edwin E. Salpeter , - , 1984, , Daniel M. Popper , - , 1983, ,

Donald Lynden-Bell Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS (5 April 1935 – 6 February 2018) was a British theoretical astrophysicist. He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars. Ly ...

, - , 1982, , Jean Delhaye , - , 1981, , Bohdan Paczyński , - , 1980, , Ludwig Biermann , - , 1978, , George B. Field , - , 1977, ,

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, - , 1975, , Lyman Spitzer , - , 1974, , Cornelis de Jager , - , 1972, , Jan H. Oort , - , 1971, ,

Antony Hewish Antony Hewish (11 May 1924 – 13 September 2021) was a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the ...

, - , 1969, ,

Bengt Strömgren Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren (21 January 1908 – 4 July 1987) was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist. Life and career Bengt Strömgren was born in Gothenburg. His parents were Hedvig Strömgren (née Lidforss) and Elis Strömgren, wh ...

, - , 1968, , Maarten Schmidt , - , 1963, , Charles Fehrenbach , - , 1959, , Martin Schwarzschild (son of Karl Schwarzschild) , -

References

Astronomy prizes German awards Awards established in 1959

Recipients

See also

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