Recipients of the Karl Schwarzschild Medal
RMA = Reviews in Modern Astronomy,
n.p. = not published,
MAG = Mitteilungen der AG
| Year | Recipient | Institute | Topic of the Karl Schwarzschild Lecture | Publication |
| 2025 | Paola Caselli |
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics |
Our Astrochemical Origins | |
| 2024 | Anton Zensus |
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie |
Imaging Black Holes - A Very Long Baseline Interferometry Success Story | |
| 2023 | Thomas Henning |
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie |
From the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory to JWST | |
| 2022 | Hans-Thomas Janka |
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik |
Core-Collapse Supernovae: From Neutrino-driven Explosion Models to Observations | |
| 2021 | Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
University of Oxford |
Opening Time Domain Astrophysics | |
| 2020 | Friedrich-Karl Thielemann |
Universität Basel |
Origin of the Elements in the Universe | |
| 2019 | Ewine van Dishoeck | Universität Leiden | Molecules from clouds to disks and planets | |
| 2018 | Andrzej Udalski | University of Warsaw | The OGLE Sky Variability Survey | |
| 2017 | Richard Wielebinski | Cosmic magnetic fields | ||
| 2016 | Robert Williams | The Distant Universe Revealed by Hubble Space Telescope | ||
| 2015 | Immo Appenzeller | Astronomical technology - the past and the future | RMA 28, 1 AN Vol. 337, 694 (2016)  |
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| 2014 | Margaret J. Geller | HectoMAPping the Universe | RMA 27, 1 AN Vol. 336, 428 (2015) |
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| 2013 | Karl-Heinz Rädler | Mean-field dynamos: the old concept and some recent developments | RMA 26, 1 AN Vol. 335, 459 (2014) |
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| 2012 | Sandra M. Faber | Lambda-CDM Galaxy Formation: A 30-Year Status Report | ||
| 2011 | Reinhard Genzel | The Massive Black Hole and Galaxies | ||
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2010
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Michel Mayor | Exoplanets: The road to Earth twins | RMA 23,1 | |
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2009
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Rolf-Peter Kudritzki | Dissecting galaxies with the brightest stars in the universe | RMA 22,1 | |
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2008
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Rashid Sunyaev | The Richness and Beauty of the Physics of Cosmological Recombination | RMA 21,1 | |
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2007
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Rudolf Kippenhahn | Als die Computer die Astronomie eroberten | RMA 20,1 | |
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2005
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Gustav Andreas Tammann | The Ups-and-Downs of the Hubble Constant | RMA 19,1 | |
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2004
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Riccardo Giacconi | The Dawn of X-Ray Astronomy | RMA 18,1 | |
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2003
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Erika Boehm-Vitense | What Hyades F Stars tell us about Heating Mechanisms in the outer Stellar Atmospheres |
RMA 17,1
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2002
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Charles H. Townes | The Behavior of Stars Observed by Infrared Interferometry |
RMA 16,1
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2001
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Keiichi Kodaira | Macro- and Microscopic Views of Nearby Galaxies |
RMA 15,1
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2000
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Roger Penrose | The Schwarzschild Singularity: one Clue to Resolving the Quantum Measurement Paradox |
RMA 14,1
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1999
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Jeremiah P. Ostriker | Historical Reflections on the Role of Numerical Modeling in Astrophysics |
RMA 13,1
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1998
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Peter A. Strittmatter | Steps to the LBT - and Beyond |
RMA 12,1
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1997
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Joseph H. Taylor | Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity |
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1996
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Kip Thorne | Gravitational Radiation - A New Window Onto the Universe |
RMA 10,1
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1995
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Henk van de Hulst: | Scaling laws in multiple light scattering under very small angles |
RMA 9,1
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1994
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Joachim Trümper | X-rays from Neutron Stars |
RMA 8,1
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1993
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Raymond Wilson | Karl Schwarzschild and telescope optics |
RMA 7,1
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1992
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Sir Fred Hoyle | The synthesis of the light elements |
RMA 6,1
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1990
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Eugene N. Parker | Convection, spontaneous discontinuities, and stellar winds and X-ray emission |
RMA 4,1
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1989
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Sir Martin J. Rees | Is there a massive black hole in every galaxy |
RMA 2,1
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1987
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Lodewijk Woltjer | The future of European astronomy |
MAG 70,21
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1986
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
The aesthetic base of the general theory of relativity |
MAG 67,19
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1985
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Edwin E. Salpeter | Galactic fountains, planetary nebulae, and warm HI |
MAG 63,11
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1984
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Daniel M. Popper | Some problems in the determination of fundamental stellar parameters from binary stars |
MAG 62,19
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1983
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Donald Lynden-Bell | Mysterious mass in local group galaxies |
MAG 60,23
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1982
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Jean Delhaye | Die Bewegungen der Sterne und ihre Bedeutung in der galaktischen Astronomie |
MAG 67,123
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1981
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Bohdan Paczynski | Thick accretion disks around black holes |
MAG 57,27
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1980
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Ludwig Biermann | Dreißig Jahre Kometenforschung |
MAG 51,37
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1978
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George B. Field | Intergalactic matter and the evolution of galaxies |
MAG 47,7
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1977
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Wilhelm Becker | Die galaktische Struktur aus optischen Beobachtungen |
MAG 43,21
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1975
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Lyman Spitzer, jr. | Interstellar matter research with the Copernicus satellite |
MAG 38,27
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1974
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Cornelis de Jager | Dynamik von Sternatmosphären |
MAG 36,15
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1972
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Jan H. Oort | On the problem of the origin of spiral structure |
MAG 32,15
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1971
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Antony Hewish | Tree years with pulsars |
MAG 31,15
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1969
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Bengt Strömgren | Quantitative Spektralklassifikation und ihre Anwendung auf Probleme der Entwicklung der Sterne und der Milchstraße |
MAG 27,15
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1968
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Maarten Schmidt | Quasi-stellar sources |
MAG 25,13
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1963
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Charles Fehrenbach | Die Bestimmung der Radialgeschwindigkeiten mit dem Objektivprisma |
MAG 17,59
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1959
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Martin Schwarzschild | Die Theorien des inneren Aufbaus der Sterne | MAG 12,15 | |
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