Schwarzschild
This article is about the surname and those bearing it. For other uses, see Schwarzschild (disambiguation).
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Schwarzschild ([ˈʃvaʁtsʃɪlt]) is a German surname[1] meaning "black sign" or "black shield".
Those bearing the name include:
- Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916), physicist and astronomer
- Steven Schwarzschild (1924–1989), philosopher and rabbi
- Henry Schwarzschild (1926–1996), civil rights activist
- Martin Schwarzschild (1912–1997), astronomer
- Shimon Schwarzschild (1925–), environmental activist
- Luise Hercus (née Schwarzschild) (1926–), linguist
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ It is likely to be misspelled and/or mispronounced by native English speakers, particularly involving failure to grasp that
- German sch (at the beginning of each of the two syllables) is pronounced as English sh,
- German w is pronounced as English v, and
- German z is pronounced as English ts.
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