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I'm not a physicist but have been reading up on this topic (gravity, general relativity etc.,). Could someone please ELI5 to me why hasn't Schwarzschild been a
by vishnugupta 6y ago
I'm not a physicist but have been reading up on this topic (gravity, general relativity etc.,).
Could someone please ELI5 to me why hasn't Schwarzschild been awarded Nobel prize? I read that his work played a big role in discovery of Black Hole and the concept in general. Heck, his name even appears no less than 19 times in the Nobel Committee's article [1]!!
[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/10/advanced-physicsprize2020.pdf https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/10/advanced-physicsp...
- cmogni1 6y agoNobels are not awarded posthumously, and he died in WWI. On that subject, “Einstein’s War” is an interesting read on the interplay between WWI and the development of general relativity.
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- sega_sai 6y agoAt the time of Schwarzschild, black holes were only a purely theoretical concept. We only started to get evidence that they exist in the 80s and later.
- codethief 6y agoSpeaking of Karl Schwarzschild, here's an interesting tidbit that, in my experience, few non-German speakers know: The literal translation of "Schwarzschild" (or "schwarzer Schild") to English would be "black shield". So him discovering the first black hole spacetime was certainly very appropriate! :) (Similarly, I was very happy when I first heard about the Poynting vector [0] which, roughly speaking, indicates the direction in which an electromagnetic wave travels.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynting_vector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynting_vector