Schwarzschild, Karl
Schwarzschild became interested in astronomy as a schoolboy and published papers on binary orbits at 16. He became director of the Potsdam observatory in 1909. Although an excellent observational astronomer who made great advances in photographic methods, Schwarzschild’s lasting contributions are theoretical and were largely made during the last year of his life. In 1916, while serving on the Russian front, Schwarzschild wrote two papers on Einstein’s recently published general theory of relativity, giving the first solution to the complex partial differential equations of the theory.
David Millar, Ian Millar, John Millar, Margaret Millar 1996, 2002
