Martin Schwarzschild
Martin Schwarzschild · Science & Medicine
Astrophysicist; theory of stellar structure and evolution
1912, Potsdam, Germany — 1997, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, United States
Germany · United States
Martin Schwarzschild is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Astrophysicist; theory of stellar structure and evolution
Martin Schwarzschild, son of astronomer Karl Schwarzschild, was a pioneering astrophysicist who developed modern theory of stellar structure and evolution and used early computers to model how stars age. Emigrating from Nazi Germany, he became a professor at Princeton and led high-altitude balloon studies of the Sun. He was Jewish, from a distinguished German Jewish family.
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Astrophysicist; theory of stellar structure and evolution
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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