Astronomische Gesellschaft - Karl Schwarzschild Medal

Recipients of the Karl Schwarzschild Medal

RMA = Reviews in Modern Astronomy, n.p. = not published,
MAG = Mitteilungen der AG

Date	Recipient	Topic of the Karl Schwarzschild Lecture	Publishment

2009-09-21	Rolf-Peter Kudritzki	Dissecting galaxies with the brightest stars in the universe
2008-09-08	Rashid Sunyaev	The Richness and Beauty of the Physics of Cosmological Recombination	RMA 21,1
2007-09-24	Rudolf Kippenhahn	When computers conquered astronomy	RMA 20.1
2005-09-27	Gustav Andreas Tammann	The Ups-and-Downs of the Hubble Constant	RMA 19.1
2004-09-21	Riccardo Giacconi	The Dawn of X-Ray Astronomy	RMA 18.1
2003-09-16	Erika Boehm-Vitense	What Hyades F Stars tell us about Heating Mechanisms in the outer Stellar Atmospheres	RMA 17.1
2002-09-24	Charles H. Townes	The Behavior of Stars Observed by Infrared Interferometry	RMA 16.1
2001-09-10	Keiichi Kodaira	Macro- and Microscopic Views of Nearby Galaxies	RMA 15.1
2000-09-19	Roger Penrose	The Schwarzschild Singularity: one Clue to Resolving the Quantum Measurement Paradox	RMA 14.1
1999-09-21	Jeremiah P. Ostriker	Historical Reflections on the Role of Numerical Modeling in Astrophysics	RMA 13.1
1998-09-15	Peter A. Strittmatter	Steps to the LBT - and Beyond	RMA 12.1
1997-09-23	Joseph H. Taylor	Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity	n.p.
1996-09-17	Kip Thorne	Gravitational Radiation - A New Window Onto the Universe	RMA 10.1
1995-09-17	Henk van de Hulst:	Scaling laws in multiple light scattering under very small angles	RMA 9.1
1994-09-27	Joachim Trümper	X-rays from Neutron Stars	RMA 8.1
1993-09-28	Raymond Wilson	Karl Schwarzschild and telescope optics	RMA 7.1
1992-09-15	Sir Fred Hoyle	The synthesis of the light elements	RMA 6.1
1990-09-25	Eugene N. Parker	Convection, spontaneous discontinuities, and stellar winds and X-ray emission	RMA 4.1
1989-09-12	Sir Martin J. Rees	Is there a massive black hole in every galaxy	RMA 2.1
1987-09-15	Lodewijk Woltjer	The future of European astronomy	MAG 70.21
1986-09-18	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	The aesthetic base of the general theory of relativity	MAG 67.19
1985-03-16	Edwin E. Salpeter	Galactic fountains, planetary nebulae, and warm HI	MAG 63.11
1984-09-11	Daniel M. Popper	Some problems in the determination of fundamental stellar parameters from binary stars	MAG 62.19
1983-09-26	Donald Lynden-Bell	Mysterious mass in local group galaxies	MAG 60.23
1982-02-24	Jean Delhaye	The Motions of stars and their meaning galactic astronomy	MAG 67.123
1981-09-16	Bohdan Paczynski	Thick accretion disks around black holes	MAG 57.27
1980-09-23	Ludwig Biermann	Thirty years of comet research	MAG 51.37
1978-09-04	George B. Field	Intergalactic matter and the evolution of galaxies	MAG 47.7
1977-09-21	Wilhelm Becker	The galactic structure from optical observations	MAG 43.21
1975-09-16	Lyman Spitzer, jr.	Interstellar matter research with the Copernicus satellite	MAG 38.27
1974-09-17	Cornelis de Jager	The dynamics of star atmospheres	MAG 36.15
1972-09-19	Jan H. Oort	On the problem of the origin of spiral structure	MAG 32.15
1971-09-14	Antony Hewish	Tree years with pulsars	MAG 31.15
1969-09-17	Bengt Strömgren	Quantitative spektral classification and its application to evolutionary problems of stars and the milky way	MAG 27.15
1968-09-25	Maarten Schmidt	Quasi-stellar sources	MAG 25.13
1963-09-25	Charles Fehrenbach	Identification of radial velocities with the objective prism	MAG 17.59
1959-09-25	Martin Schwarzschild	The theories of the inner structure of stars	MAG 12.15

Date	Recipient	Topic	Publishment

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