Karl Schwarzschild Biography

Birth of Karl Schwarzschild

Papers on relativity produced the first exact solutions to the Einstein field equations, and a minor modification of these results gives the well-known solution that now bears his name: the Schwarzschild metric

The Schwarzschild solution, which makes use of Schwarzschild coordinates and the Schwarzschild metric, leads to the well-known Schwarzschild radius, which is the size of the event horizon of a non-rotating black hole

Finds the exact spherical solution to Einstein's field equations, foundational for black hole theory.

Death of Karl Schwarzschild