Schwarz
Encyclopedia
Schwarz is a common surname, derived from the German , ˈʃvaɐ̯ts, meaning the color black
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Black
Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light...
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People
- Alan SchwarzAlan SchwarzAlan Schwarz is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter at the The New York Times best known for writing more than 100 articles that exposed the seriousness of concussions among football players of all ages...
(born 1968), American writer - Albert SchwarzAlbert SchwarzAlbert S. Schwarz is a mathematician and a theoretical physicist educated in Soviet Union and now a Professor at the University of California-Davis. He is one of the pioneers of Morse theory and brought up the first example of a topological quantum field theory. Schwarz worked on some examples in...
, Russian-born American theoretical - Annette SchwarzAnnette SchwarzAnnette Schwarz in Germany) is a German pornographic actress and fetish model.Schwarz started her pornographic career when she was 18, moving to Munich where she began working in John Thompson's GGG and 666 movies...
, German pornographic actress - Berthold SchwarzBerthold SchwarzBerthold Schwarz is a legendary or semi-legendary German alchemist of the late 14th century, credited with the invention of gunpowder in literature of the 15th and 16th centuries....
, Franciscan monk - Brinsley Schwarz (musician)Brinsley Schwarz (musician)Brinsley Ernst Pieter Schwarz is an English guitarist and rock musician. He formed a band named Kippington Lodge in 1965, which evolved into the eponymous band Brinsley Schwarz...
, English guitarist - Christian Friedrich SchwarzChristian Friedrich SchwarzChristian Friedrich Schwarz was a German Lutheran Protestant missionary to India, born on 8 October 1726 at Sonnenburg, in the electorate of Brandenburg, Prussia. Having learned Tamil to assist in a translation of the Bible into that language, he was led to form the intention of becoming a...
, German Protestant missionary - Daniel R. Schwarz (born 1941), professor of English literature
- David Schwarz (Australian Rules footballer)
- Ernst SchwarzErnst SchwarzErnst Schwarz was a German zoologist.Schwarz was born in Frankfurt and studied zoology in Munich. He worked at the Museum of Natural History in Frankfurt and the Zoological Museum in Berlin. In 1929 he became professor of Zoology at the University of Greifswald. He worked at the Natural History...
(1889–1962), German zoologist who named the bonobo - Franz Xaver SchwarzFranz Xaver SchwarzFranz Xaver Schwarz was a German politician who served as Reichsschatzmeister of the Nazi Party during most of the Party's existence.-Early life:...
, Nazi treasurer - Frederick August Otto SchwarzFrederick August Otto SchwarzFrederick August Otto Schwarz was a toy retailer who started FAO Schwarz. -Biography:He was born in 1836 at Herford, Westphalia, Germany, and immigrated in 1856 with his three brothers: Henry, Richard, and Gustav. He worked for a Baltimore stationery importer...
(1836–1911), German immigrant founder of F.A.O. Schwarz - Gerard SchwarzGerard SchwarzGerard Schwarz is an American conductor. He was music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2011.In 2007 Schwarz was named music director of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina, having served as principal conductor since 2005...
, American conductor - Harry SchwarzHarry SchwarzHarry Heinz Schwarz was a South African lawyer, statesman and long-time political opposition leader against apartheid, who eventually served as the South African ambassador to the United States during the country’s transition to representative democracy.Schwarz rose from the childhood poverty he...
South African lawyer, politician, diplomat and anti-apartheid leader - Hermann Schwarz (philosopher)Hermann Schwarz (philosopher)----Hermann Schwarz was a German philosopher. Educated at Halle, where he devoted himself to mathematics and to philosophy, he became professor at Marburg in 1908 and at Greifswald in 1910. His philosophy was not unlike that of Goswin Uphues...
, German philosopher - Hermann Amandus Schwarz (1843–1921), German mathematician
- John H. Schwarz (born 1941), American theoretical physicist and one of the founders of string theory
- Joe SchwarzJoe SchwarzJohn J. H. "Joe" Schwarz, M.D. , an independent politician from Michigan, was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2004 as a moderate Republican...
(born 1937), U. S. congressman from Michigan - Josef SchwarzJosef SchwarzJosef Schwarz is a retired German long jumper. He represented West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Schwarz set the world's best year performance in the men's long jump in the year 1970: 8.35 metres ; this also was the world record at low altitude, until 1975...
(born 1941), Czech-born German long jumper - Karl SchwarzKarl SchwarzKarl Schwarz was a German Protestant theologian.-Birth and early life:He was born at Wiek, Rügen. His father, Theodor Schwarz, pastor at Wiek, was well known as a preacher, and as the writer of a number of popular works under the pseudonym "Theodor Melas".-University studies:Karl Schwarz studied...
(1812–1885), German Protestant theologian - Paul SchwarzPaul SchwarzPaul Schwarz was a German orientalist, Iranist and Arabist.He taught as a professor for Arab language at the Leipzig University.- Literary works :* Die ‘Abbāsiden Residenz Sāmarrā, 1909...
, German orientalist - Reggie SchwarzReggie SchwarzMajor Reginald Oscar Schwarz MC, known as Reggie was a South African cricketer and international rugby union footballer.-Early life:...
(1875-1918), Anglo-South African cricketer and rugby union player - Robert Schwarz StraussRobert Schwarz StraussRobert Schwarz Strauss is a figure in American politics and diplomacy. A Texas political figure, Strauss’s political service dates back to future president Lyndon Johnson’s first congressional campaign in 1937. By the 1950s, he was associated in Texas politics with the conservative faction of...
, American government officer - Rosser Schwarz, American computer scientist
- Rudolf Schwarz (conductor)Rudolf Schwarz (conductor)Rudolf Schwarz CBE was an Austrian-born conductor of Jewish ancestry. He became a British citizen and spent the latter half of his life in England.-Early life:...
, Austrian conductor - Stefan SchwarzStefan SchwarzHans-Jürgen Stefan Schwarz is a Swedish former footballer.Born to a German father, he played as a midfielder and a left-back. He started playing football at youth level in Kulladals FF and began his career at his hometown club Malmö FF...
, Swedish midfielder - Solomon Schwarz, Russian socialist, Menshevik
- Udo SchwarzUdo SchwarzUdo Schwarz is a German international rugby union player, playing for the SC Neuenheim in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.Schwarz played one game for Germany, against a Welsh Districts XV on 28 November 2008....
, German rugby union international - Christian Schwarz-SchillingChristian Schwarz-SchillingDr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling , is a German politician and entrepreneur. He is the son of the composer Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling and is married to the author Marie-Luise Schwarz-Schilling with whom he has two children...
, German politician - Laurent Henri SchwartzLaurent Henri SchwartzLaurent Schwartz is a French oncologist and scientist....
, French oncologist - Danny Schwarz (model)Danny Schwarz (model)Danny Schwarz is a British male model-Career:Danny signed with Premier Model Management in 2008,He has appeared in numerous campaigns and catwalk shows for brands such as D&G,Pepe Jeans, Missoni,Armani jeans and Colcci. He also shot a campaign with Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen and has worked...
, English Model
Mathematics
- Schwarz lemmaSchwarz lemmaIn mathematics, the Schwarz lemma, named after Hermann Amandus Schwarz, is a result in complex analysis about holomorphic functions from the open unit disk to itself. The lemma is less celebrated than stronger theorems, such as the Riemann mapping theorem, which it helps to prove...
, a mathematical result about holomorphic functions- Schwarz–Ahlfors–Pick theoremSchwarz–Ahlfors–Pick theoremIn mathematics, the Schwarz–Ahlfors–Pick theorem is an extension of the Schwarz lemma for hyperbolic geometry, such as the Poincaré half-plane model...
, an extension of the Schwarz lemma for hyperbolic manifolds
- Schwarz–Ahlfors–Pick theorem
- Cauchy–Schwarz inequalityCauchy–Schwarz inequalityIn mathematics, the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality , is a useful inequality encountered in many different settings, such as linear algebra, analysis, probability theory, and other areas...
, a concept in inner product space mathematics - Schwarz's theorem, about the symmetry of second derivatives
Other uses
- F.A.O. SchwarzF.A.O. SchwarzFAO Schwarz is the name of an upscale toy retailer in New York City, located in the General Motors Building on 5th Avenue. It is the oldest operating toy retailer in North America, and is often considered as the New York equivalent of Hamleys in London....
, a toy store - Schwarz PublishingSchwarz PublishingSchwartz Publishing is an Australian publishing house based in Melbourne, Australia.Publications include:* Quarterly Essay* Andrew Wilkie, Axis of deceit.-External links:*...
, an Australian publishing house - Schwarz SteinSchwarz SteinSchwarz Stein was a Japanese visual kei electronic music duo formed by Hora and Kaya in 2001 and disbanded in 2004.-History:...
, a Japanese music band - Green-Schwarz mechanismGreen-Schwarz mechanismThe Green–Schwarz mechanism is the main discovery that started the first superstring revolution in superstring theory.-Discovery:In 1984, Michael Green and John H...
, an interaction in string theory - Schwarz, GermanySchwarz, GermanySchwarz is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany....
, a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany - SchwarzbierSchwarzbier, or "black beer", is a German dark lager beer. It has an opaque, black colour and a full, chocolatey or coffee flavour. Although they share some similar flavours they are milder tasting and less bitter than British stouts or porters, owing to the use of lager rather than ale yeast and no roasted...
, German dark lager - Schwarz, an album by Böhse Onkelz; see Weiß & SchwarzWeiß & SchwarzWeiß & Schwarz are in fact two albums by German hard rock band Böhse Onkelz. Both were released at the same time in 1993...
- Schwarz, an album by Conrad Schnitzler; also called EruptionEruption (album)Eruption is the third and final full-length album by German experimental music trio Kluster. It is also the only live recording issued by Kluster....
- "Schwarz" First World War slang for a German aircraft mechanic, deriving from their black work uniforms