Karl schwarzschild religion
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3-41. Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916) got an early start in astronomy and celestial mechanics in Frankfurt, thanks to his father’s acquaintance with the mathematician Paul Epstein. His first two papers on double star orbits were published when he was only sixteen years old. In 1891, Schwarzschild studied at the University of Strasbourg, and in 1893 he moved to the University of Munich, where he defended a thesis on equilibrium figures of rotating fluid masses, written under the direction of Hugo von Seeliger (Schwarzschild 1896, 1898).
From 1896 to 1899, Schwarzschild was an assistant at the Kuffner Observatory in Ottakring (near Vienna), where he worked on photometric techniques, a subject on which he presented his Habilitation in 1899 at the University of Munich, entitled “Beiträge zur photographischen Photometrie der Gestirne” (Schwarzschild, 1900).
In October, 1901 Schwarzschild was named associate professor of astronomy at the University of Göttingen, and director of the Göttingen Observatory, after von Seeliger and Max Wolf both declined offer
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Early Life
Karl Schwarzschild was born in Frankfurt, Germany. His father was a successful businessman and his family enjoyed arts and music. Karl became interested in stargazing and saved his pocket money to build a small telescope. His father encouraged his interest in maths and astronomy. Karl was the first member of his family to become a scientist. He learned a lot of advanced maths from his friend, Paul Epstein who went on to become a mathematician. Karl studied at the University of Strasbourg and got his PhD from the University of Munich in 1896. After university, Karl worked as an assistant at Von Kuffner Observatory in Vienna.
Career Highlights
Karl researched lots of areas of science but is best known for finding the first exact answer to Albert Einstein’s equations of general relativity. He did this in 1915 while calculating missile trajectories as a soldier in the First World War. During that time, Karl developed a rare autoimmune skin disease. Despite suffering from pain, Karl published two outstanding papers on general relativity and one on quantum th
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Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild (9 October 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a Germanphysicist and astronomer.
Best known for his solution to Einstein's equations of general relativity, which describes the gravitational field outside a non-rotatingblack hole with no magnetic field.
The equation describes how a particle moves space near this black hole (using spherical coordinates).
ds is the path it follows
dt is the change in time
dr is the change in radius
d and d are the change in angle
is also the angle
is the set radius limit of the heavy object
r is how close the travelling object is to the heavy object
c is the speed of light
This equation is also known as the Schwarzschild metric or Schwarzschild solution.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑Biography of Karl Schwarzschild by Indranu Suhendro, The Abraham Zelmanov Journal, 2008, Volume 1.
- ↑Czerniawski, Jan. [1], The possibility of a simple derivation of the Schwarzschild metric. Retrieved on 10 May, 2020.
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