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Martin Schwarzschild

1912 - 1997

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Martin Schwarzschild (May 31, 1912 – April 10, 1997) was a German-American astrophysicist. The Schwarzschild criterion, for the stability of stellar gas against convection, is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Schwarzschild is the 218th most popular astronomer (down from 197th in 2019), the 2,277th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,250th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Martin Schwarzschild ranks 218 out of 644. Before him are Francis Baily, Erasmus Reinhold, Bengt Strömgren, Jean-Louis Pons, George Ellery Hale, and Fred Lawrence Whipple. After him are Adalbert Krueger, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Henri Debehogne, Johannes Schöner, Peter Andreas Hansen, and Antonio de Ulloa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Martin Schwarzschild ranks 122. Before him are Perry Como, Richard Brooks, Marta Eggerth, Martha Scott, Juan Carlos Aramburu, and Dinmukhamed Kunaev. After him are Wendy Hiller, Thorbjørn Egner, Moses Finley, Nancy Wake, Fritz Fischer, and Fritz Klingenberg. Among people deceased in 1997, Martin Schwarzschild ranks 95. Before him are Gunpei Yokoi, Jacinto Quincoces, Giuseppe De Santis, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Francisco Aramburu, and François Furet. After him are Lyman Spitzer, Bo Widerberg, Jambyn Batmönkh, Chiang Wei-kuo, Allan Edwall, and Peng Zhen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Schwarzschild ranks 2,278 out of 7,253. Before him are Horst Sindermann (1915), Marc-André ter Stegen (1992), Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1663), Hermann Ehrhardt (1881), Franzl Lang (1930), and Armin T. Wegner (1886). After him are Benno (1010), Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667), Jil Sander (1943), William, Prince of Hohenzollern (1864), Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1577), and Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Martin Schwarzschild ranks 37. Before him are Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), Tobias Mayer (1723), Andreas Cellarius (1596), and Erasmus Reinhold (1511). After him are Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), Johannes Schöner (1477), Johannes Fabricius (1587), Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834).

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