David Schramm
David Norman Schramm (born October 25, 1945 in St. Louis , Missouri , † December 19, 1997 in Denver , Colorado in a plane crash ) was an American astrophysicist .
Schramm studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor 1965) and at Caltech (California Institute of Technology), where he received his doctorate in 1971 . In 1972 he became Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin , 1974 Associate Professor at the University of Chicago and 1977 Professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute there. From 1982 until his death he was Louis Block Professor of Physical Sciences there. At the same time he was professor of astrophysics there from 1978 to 1984. He was visiting scholar at Cambridge University (1972), at the University of California, Berkeley (1992), Carnegie Mellon University (1985) and at SLAC (1977). From 1981 to 1997 he was an adjunct professor at the University of Utah .
He dealt with the big bang theory , whose leading expert he became in the 1970s and 1980s . He was also one of the first to advocate consideration of dark matter .
In 1974 Schramm received the Robert J. Trumpler Prize from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . In 1975 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1978 the American Astronomical Society awarded him the Helen B. Warner Prize , the American Physical Society in 1993 the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize . In 1986 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences . From 1975 to 1997 he was a consultant at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , from 1992 to 1997 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and from 1982 to 1997 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory . In 1994 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Schramm died on December 19, 1997 in a plane crash near Denver, Colorado while maneuvering his own plane (a Swearingen-Fairchild SA 226) solo.
On January 30, 2010 an asteroid was named after him: (113952) Schramm .
Web links
- Literature by and about David Schramm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by DN Schramm in the Astrophysics Data System
- Obituaries for DN Schramm in the Astrophysics Data System
- Biography at the APS
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schramm, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schramm, David Norman (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1997 |
| Place of death | near Denver , Colorado |