Awards & Winners

Martin Schwarzschild

Date of Birth 31-May-1912
Place of Birth Potsdam
(Germany, Brandenburg, Brandenburg an der Havel)
Nationality United States of America, Germany
Profession Scientist, Astronomer
Martin Schwarzschild was a German-born American astrophysicist. He was the son of famed German physicist Karl Schwarzschild and the nephew of the Swiss astrophysicist Robert Emden.

Awards by Martin Schwarzschild

Check all the awards nominated and won by Martin Schwarzschild.

1997


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For his seminal contributions to the theory of the evolution of stars, and his creative insights into galactic dynamics which form the basis of much of contemporary astrophysics; and his lifetime of dedication to students. His influence on U.S. astronomy in the second half of this Century is unsurpassed.)

1960


Henry Draper Medal
(For his book Structure and Evolution of the Stars and two papers, On the Maximum Mass of Stable Stars and Evolution of very Massive Stars, which are outstanding contributions in the field of stellar evolution.)