biography
| name: |
Schwarzschild, Martin
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pronunciation:
[shvah(r)tschilt]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1912– )
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Potsdam, Germany. He went to Harvard College Observatory as a research fellow in 1937. He served in the US Army in World War 2 and won the Legion of Merit and a Bronze Star. At Princeton University (from 1947), he combined advances in nuclear physics with ‘balloon astronomy’ to develop theories on stellar evolution. |
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