Potsdam, German Empire, 9 October 1873
Frankfurt am Main, German Empire, 11 May 1916
physicist and astronomer

Karl Schwarzschild



Karl Schwarzschild

Potsdam, German Empire, 9 October 1873
Frankfurt am Main, German Empire, 11 May 1916
physicist and astronomer

Karl Schwarzschild



Schwarzschild at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910

Potsdam, German Empire, 9 October 1873
Frankfurt am Main, German Empire, 11 May 1916
physicist and astronomer

Karl Schwarzschild



The Schwarzschild radius or the gravitational radius is a physical parameter in the Schwarzschild solution to Einstein's field equations that corresponds to the radius defining the event horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole

Potsdam, German Empire, 9 October 1873
Frankfurt am Main, German Empire, 11 May 1916
physicist and astronomer

Karl Schwarzschild



Boundary region of Schwarzschild interior and exterior solution

Potsdam, German Empire, 9 October 1873
Frankfurt am Main, German Empire, 11 May 1916
physicist and astronomer

Karl Schwarzschild



Karl Schwarzschild's grave at Stadtfriedhof (Göttingen)

Bourg-en-Bresse, France, 9 October 1869
Sèvres, France, 16 April 1951
physicist

Aimé Cotton



Aimé Auguste Cotton

Bourg-en-Bresse, France, 9 October 1869
Sèvres, France, 16 April 1951
physicist

Aimé Cotton



Cotton at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910

Bourg-en-Bresse, France, 9 October 1869
Sèvres, France, 16 April 1951
physicist

Aimé Cotton



The electric field vectors of a traveling circularly polarized electromagnetic wave. This wave is right-circularly-polarized, since the direction of rotation of the vector is related by the right-hand rule to the direction the wave is moving

Bourg-en-Bresse, France, 9 October 1869
Sèvres, France, 16 April 1951
physicist

Aimé Cotton



A left-handed/anti-clockwise circularly polarized wave as defined from the point of view of the source

Bourg-en-Bresse, France, 9 October 1869
Sèvres, France, 16 April 1951
physicist

Aimé Cotton



Two enantiomers of a generic amino acid that are chiral

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