Schwarzschild, Karl (1873-1916)
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schwarzschild.htmlBiography of the German astronomer who was the first to find a non-trivial solution to Einstein's field equations (which we now know describes a black hole); from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (University of St. Andrews).
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