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Karl Schwarzschild Medal

The Karl Schwarzschild Medal, named after the astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild, is an award presented by the Astronomische Gesellschaft (German Astronomical Society) to eminent astronomers and astrophysicists.

Recipients

Source: German Astronomical Society

YearName
2025Paola Caselli
2024Anton Zensus
2023Thomas Henning
2022Hans-Thomas Janka
2021Jocelyn Bell
2020Friedrich-Karl Thielemann
2019Ewine van Dishoeck
2018Andrzej Udalski
2017
2016Robert Williams
2015Immo Appenzeller
2014Margaret Geller
2013Karl-Heinz Rädler
2012Sandra M. Faber
2011Reinhard Genzel
2010Michel Mayor
2009Rolf-Peter Kudritzki
2008Rashid Sunyaev
2007Rudolf Kippenhahn
2005Gustav Andreas Tammann
2004Riccardo Giacconi
2003Erika Boehm-Vitense
2002Charles H. Townes
2001
2000Roger Penrose
1999Jeremiah P. Ostriker
1998Peter A. Strittmatter
1997Joseph H. Taylor
1996Kip Thorne
1995Hendrik C. van de Hulst
1994
1993Raymond Wilson
1992Fred Hoyle
1990Eugene N. Parker
1989Martin J. Rees
1987Lodewijk Woltjer
1986Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1985Edwin E. Salpeter
1984Daniel M. Popper
1983Donald Lynden-Bell
1982Jean Delhaye
1981Bohdan Paczyński
1980Ludwig Biermann
1978George B. Field
1977Wilhelm Becker
1975Lyman Spitzer
1974Cornelis de Jager
1972Jan H. Oort
1971Antony Hewish
1969Bengt Strömgren
1968Maarten Schmidt
1963Charles Fehrenbach
1959Martin Schwarzschild (son of Karl Schwarzschild)

References

References

  1. "Awards by the AG". Astronomische Gesellschaft.
  2. "Recipients of the Karl Schwarzschild Medal".
  3. "German Astronomical Society announces its 2022 prizes".
  4. (June 28, 2016). "German Astronomical Society (AG) awards Robert Williams the Karl Schwarzschild Medal".
  5. (February 5, 2014). "Margaret J. Geller Awarded Karl Schwarzschild Medal".
  6. (September 25, 2013). "Karl-Heinz Rädler awarded with Karl-Schwarzschild Medal".
  7. (July 13, 2011). "Reinhard Genzel receives Karl Schwarzschild Medal 2011".
  8. (September 25, 2009). "Astronomy Director Awarded Schwarzschild Prize".
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