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This paper will give a short account of the life of Karl Schwarzschild and his relation to Frankfurt. Focus will be on the early papers he published, while he was still at school. And his last papers, that made him famous in the community of astrophysicists focusing on black holes will be mentioned in biographical context as well.

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Notes

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    This description is based on the documentation at the Museum Judengasse, Frankfurt am Main.

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    For this chronology I will combine the outlines from the biographies mentioned [6], p. 1–28, [2, 6].

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    Final exams that pupils take at the end of their secondary education in Germany.

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    The impact of the early work was—as already mentioned—very modest: Methods for determining a preliminary orbit are programmed today, while the determination of definitive orbits for comets and asteroids still requires laborious, detailed work [7].

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  1. Physikalischer Verein, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany

    Frank Linhard

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  1. Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Piero Nicolini

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

    Matthias Kaminski

  3. Department of Physics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Jonas Mureika

  4. Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Marcus Bleicher

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Linhard, F. (2016). Karl Schwarzschild and Frankfurt. In: Nicolini, P., Kaminski, M., Mureika, J., Bleicher, M. (eds) 1st Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 170. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20046-0_1

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