Karl Schwarzschild Medal
The Karl Schwarzschild Medal is awarded every year by the Astronomical Society to astronomers of high scientific rank. It is named after the astronomer Karl Schwarzschild . The award winner gives a lecture at the Society's annual meeting, which is published in the journals Astronomische Nachrichten and Reviews of Modern Astronomy. It is considered one of the highest awards in astronomy in Germany and is awarded to scientists from Germany and abroad, regardless of nationality.
Award winners
With title of the lecture:
- 1959: Martin Schwarzschild (son of Karl Schwarzschild), Theories of the internal structure of the stars
- 1963: Charles Fehrenbach , The determination of radial velocities with the objective prism
- 1968: Maarten Schmidt , Quasi-stellar sources
- 1969: Bengt Strömgren , Quantitative Spectral Classification and its Application to Problems of the Evolution of Stars and the Milky Way
- 1971: Antony Hewish , Three years with pulsars
- 1972: Jan Oort , On the problem of the origin of spiral structure
- 1974: Cornelis de Jager , Dynamics of Star Atmospheres
- 1975: Lyman Spitzer , Interstellar matter research with the Copernicus satellite
- 1977: Wilhelm Becker , The galactic structure from optical observations
- 1978: George Field , Intergalactic matter and the evolution of galaxies
- 1980: Ludwig Biermann , Thirty Years of Comet Research
- 1981: Bohdan Paczyński , Thick accretion disks around black holes
- 1982: Jean Delhaye , The Movements of the Stars and Their Significance in Galactic Astronomy
- 1983: Donald Lynden-Bell , Mysterious mass in local group galaxies
- 1984: Daniel Popper , Some problems in the determination of fundamental stellar parameters from binary stars
- 1985: Edwin Salpeter , Galactic fountains, planetary nebulae, and warm HI
- 1986: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , The aesthetic base of the general theory of relativity
- 1987: Lodewijk Woltjer , The future of European astronomy
- 1989: Martin Rees , Is there a massive black hole in every galaxy
- 1990: Eugene N. Parker , Convection, spontaneous discontinuities, and stellar winds and X-ray emission
- 1992: Fred Hoyle , The synthesis of the light elements
- 1993: Raymond Wilson , Karl Schwarzschild and telescope optics
- 1994: Joachim Trümper , X-rays from Neutron Stars
- 1995: Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst , Scaling laws in multiple light scattering under very small angles
- 1996: Kip Thorne , Gravitational Radiation - A New Window Onto the Universe
- 1997: Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. , Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity
- 1998: Peter A. Strittmatter , Steps to the LBT - and Beyond
- 1999: Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Historical Reflections on the Role of Numerical Modeling in Astrophysics
- 2000: Roger Penrose , The Schwarzschild Singularity: one Clue to Resolving the Quantum Measurement Paradox
- 2001: Keiichi Kodaira , Macro- and Microscopic Views of Nearby Galaxies
- 2002: Charles H. Townes , The Behavior of Stars Observed by Infrared Interferometry
- 2003: Erika Böhm-Vitense , What Hyades F Stars tell us about Heating Mechanisms in the outer Stellar Atmospheres
- 2004: Riccardo Giacconi , The Dawn of X-Ray Astronomy
- 2005: Gustav Andreas Tammann , The Ups-and-Downs of the Hubble Constant
- 2007: Rudolf Kippenhahn , When Computers Conquered Astronomy
- 2008: Rashid Sunyaev , The Richness and Beauty of the Physics of Cosmological Recombination
- 2009: Rolf-Peter Kudritzki , Dissecting galaxies with the brightest stars in the universe
- 2010: Michel Mayor , Exoplanets: The road to Earth twins
- 2011: Reinhard Genzel , The Massive Black Hole and Galaxies
- 2012: Sandra Moore Faber , Lambda-CDM Galaxy Formation: A 30-Year Status Report
- 2013: Karl-Heinz Rädler , Mean-field dynamos: the old and some recent developments
- 2014: Margaret J. Geller , HectoMAPping the Universe
- 2015: Immo Appenzeller , Astronomical technology - the past and the future
- 2016: Robert Williams , The Distant Universe Revealed by Hubble Space Telescope
- 2017: Richard Wielebinski , Cosmic magnetic fields
- 2018: Andrzej Udalski , Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
- 2019: Ewine van Dishoeck
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Jäger: Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the Astronomical Society (AG) for Andrzej Udalski. Astronomische Gesellschaft, press release from August 21, 2018 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on August 21, 2018.
- ↑ J. Fohlmeister: Astronomical Society are winners and winners in 2019 known. Astronomische Gesellschaft, press release from September 10, 2019 from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on September 10, 2019.