Karl

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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 black hole.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → astronomer → human → physicist →
causeOfDeath	pemphigus →
conflict	World War I →
countryOfBirth	German Empire →
countryOfCitizenship	German Empire →
countryOfDeath	German Empire →
dateOfBirth	1873-10-09 →
dateOfDeath	1916-05-11 →
doctoralAdvisor	Hugo von Seeliger →
educatedAt	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich NERFINISHED → University of Strasbourg NERFINISHED →
employer	Astrophysical Observatory in Potsdam → University of Göttingen NERFINISHED → University of Munich NERFINISHED →
ethnicGroup	Jewish →
familyName	Schwarzschild →
fieldOfWork	astrophysics → celestial mechanics → general relativity → optics → theoretical physics →
givenName	Karl →
hasConceptNamedAfter	Schwarzschild black hole → Schwarzschild coordinates → Schwarzschild metric → Schwarzschild solution →
hasUnitNamedAfter	Schwarzschild radius →
knownFor	first exact solution of Einstein field equations of general relativity → foundations of black hole theory → work on photographic optics → work on stellar structure →
memberOf	Prussian Academy of Sciences → Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen →
militaryBranch	German Army →
name	Karl Schwarzschild →
notableWork	Schwarzschild black hole → Schwarzschild metric → Schwarzschild radius → Schwarzschild solution to Einstein field equations →
occupation	astronomer → physicist →
placeOfBirth	Frankfurt am Main →
placeOfDeath	Potsdam →
positionHeld	director of Astrophysical Observatory in Potsdam →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Göttingen → Munich → Potsdam →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Karl Schwarzschild →	givenName