Schwarzschild
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Schwarzschild is a German
surname meaning "black sign" or "black shield" and may refer to:
Named after Karl Schwarzschild
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German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
surname meaning "black sign" or "black shield" and may refer to:
- Henry SchwarzschildHenry SchwarzschildHenry Schwarzschild was an activist for civil rights and human rights. He was a fighter for the American Civil Rights Movement and later on became involved in the fight against capital punishment...
, (1926–1996), founder of NCADP, LCDC, and head of ACLU's Capital Punishment project in America - Steven SchwarzschildSteven SchwarzschildSteven S. Schwarzschild was a rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and editor.-Biography:Schwarzschild was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and grew up in Berlin. He escaped to the United States with his family in 1939....
, (1924–1989), philosopher and rabbi - Karl SchwarzschildKarl SchwarzschildKarl Schwarzschild was a German physicist. He is also the father of astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild.He is best known for providing 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...
, (1873–1916), physicist and astronomer - Martin SchwarzschildMartin SchwarzschildMartin Schwarzschild was a German American astronomer. He was the son of famed astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild and the nephew of the Swiss astrophysicist Robert Emden.-Biography:...
, (1912–1997), astronomer - Roger SchwarzschildRoger SchwarzschildRoger Schwarzschild is a professor of linguistics in the department of linguistics at Rutgers University. His primary research is in the fields of semantics and pragmatics.-External links:*...
, linguist
Named after Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist. He is also the father of astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild.He is best known for providing 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...
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- Schwarzschild (crater)Schwarzschild (crater)Schwarzschild is a large lunar impact crater that islocated in the northern part of the Moon's far side. The nearest craters of note are Seares to the northeast, and Gamow to the southeast....
- Karl Schwarzschild MedalKarl Schwarzschild MedalThe Karl Schwarzschild Medal, named after the astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild, is an award presented by the Astronomische Gesellschaft to eminent astronomers and astrophysicists.-Recipients:...
- Karl Schwarzschild ObservatoryKarl Schwarzschild ObservatoryThe Karl-Schwarzschild-Observatorium is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the institute of Thüringer Landessternwarte ’Karl Schwarzschild’ Tautenburg. In 1992 it was acquired by the state of Thuringia...
- Schwarzschild coordinatesSchwarzschild coordinatesIn the theory of Lorentzian manifolds, spherically symmetric spacetimes admit a family of nested round spheres. In such a spacetime, a particularly important kind of coordinate chart is the Schwarzschild chart, a kind of polar spherical coordinate chart on a static and spherically symmetric...
- Schwarzschild metricSchwarzschild metricIn Einstein's theory of general relativity, the Schwarzschild solution describes the gravitational field outside a spherical, uncharged, non-rotating mass such as a star, planet, or black hole. It is also a good approximation to the gravitational field of a slowly rotating body like the Earth or...
(Schwarzschild solution, Schwarzschild geometry, Schwarzschild black hole, Schwarzschild vacuum) - Schwarzschild radiusSchwarzschild radiusThe Schwarzschild radius is the distance from the center of an object such that, if all the mass of the object were compressed within that sphere, the escape speed from the surface would equal the speed of light...
(Schwarzschild horizon) - Schwarzschild wormholes
- Schwarzschild Criterion
- Schwarzschild effect in photography, also known as reciprocity