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Karl Schwarzschild Medal

German award for astronomy and astrophysics

Memorial Pages

21 memorial pages

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Jeremiah P. Ostriker

04/13/1937 – 04/06/2025

87 years

Manhattan

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Maarten Schmidt

12/28/1929 – 09/17/2022

92 years

Dutch astronomer

Fresno

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Eugene Parker

06/10/1927 – 03/15/2022

94 years

American astronomer

Chicago

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Antony Hewish

05/11/1924 – 09/13/2021

97 years

English physicist and radio astronomer

Fowey

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Cornelis de Jager

04/29/1921 – 05/27/2021

100 years

Den Burg

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Rudolf Kippenhahn

05/24/1926 – 11/15/2020

94 years

Göttingen

Family Tree

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Lodewijk Woltjer

04/26/1930 – 08/25/2019

89 years

Geneva

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Gustav Andreas Tammann

07/24/1932 – 01/06/2019

86 years

Basel

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Riccardo Giacconi

10/06/1931 – 12/09/2018

87 years

Italian-American astrophysicist

San Diego

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Raymond Wilson

03/23/1928 – 03/16/2018

89 years

Rohrbach

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Donald Lynden-Bell

04/05/1935 – 02/06/2018

82 years

Cambridge

Family Tree

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Edwin Ernest Salpeter

12/03/1924 – 11/26/2008

83 years

Austrian–Australian–American astrophysicist

Ithaca

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Fred Hoyle

06/24/1915 – 08/20/2001

86 years

British astronomer

Bournemouth

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Jean Delhaye

02/25/1921 – 04/02/2001

80 years

Paris

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Hendrik C. van de Hulst

11/19/1918 – 07/31/2000

81 years

Dutch astronomer

Leiden

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Daniel M. Popper

08/17/1913 – 09/09/1999

86 years

United States

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Family Tree

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Martin Schwarzschild

05/31/1912 – 04/10/1997

84 years

Langhorne

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Wilhelm Becker

07/03/1907 – 11/20/1996

89 years

Binningen

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Family Tree

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

10/19/1910 – 08/21/1995

84 years

Indian-American astrophysicist

Chicago

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Bengt Strömgren

01/21/1908 – 07/04/1987

79 years

Copenhagen

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Ludwig Biermann

03/13/1907 – 01/12/1986

78 years

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