Karl Schwarzschild

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academic astronomer human physicist

Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist and astronomer best known for providing the first exact solution to Einstein’s field equations, leading to the concept of the Schwarzschild radius and black holes.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → astronomer → human → physicist →
academicAdvisor	Hugo von Seeliger →
awardReceived	Lalande Prize →
causeOfDeath	autoimmune disease → pemphigus →
conflict	World War I →
countryOfBirth	German Empire →
countryOfCitizenship	German Empire →
dateOfBirth	1873-10-09 →
dateOfDeath	1916-05-11 →
educatedAt	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich → University of Strasbourg →
employer	Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam → University of Göttingen → University of Munich →
ethnicGroup	Jewish people →
familyName	Schwarzschild →
fieldOfWork	astronomy → astrophysics → general relativity → physics →
givenName	Karl →
hasEponym	Schwarzschild black hole → Schwarzschild crater on the Moon → Schwarzschild metric → Schwarzschild radius → Schwarzschild solution → Schwarzschild telescope →
hasRelative	Martin Schwarzschild →
knownFor	Schwarzschild coordinates → Schwarzschild criterion → Schwarzschild metric → Schwarzschild radius → Schwarzschild telescope → exact solution of Einstein field equations for a point mass → work on black holes →
languageOfWorkOrName	German →
memberOf	Prussian Academy of Sciences →
militaryBranch	German Army →
name	Karl Schwarzschild →
namedAfter	Schwarzschild crater →
notableWork	"Über das Gravitationsfeld einer Kugel aus inkompressibler Flüssigkeit nach der Einsteinschen Theorie" → "Über das Gravitationsfeld eines Massenpunktes nach der Einsteinschen Theorie" →
occupation	professor →
placeOfBirth	Frankfurt am Main →
placeOfDeath	Potsdam →
positionHeld	director of Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam →
relativeType	father of Martin Schwarzschild →
sexOrGender	male →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Schwarzschild black hole → Schwarzschild coordinates → Schwarzschild crater → Schwarzschild criterion → Schwarzschild radius → Schwarzschild telescope → Schwarzschild–Milne equations →	namedAfter
Karl Schwarzschild → Karl Schwarzschild →	name
Über das Gravitationsfeld eines Massenpunktes nach der Einsteinschen Theorie →	author
Martin Schwarzschild →	childOf
Schwarzschild radius →	discoveredBy
Schwarzschild crater →	eponym
Martin Schwarzschild →	father
Schwarzschild →	hasNotableBearer
Schwarzschild telescope →	historicalDesigner
Martin Schwarzschild →	parent