Scientific and Luminary Biography - David Schramm

David Schramm

David Schramm was born in St. Louis, Missouri in October 1945. He earned his master's degree in physics from the MIT in 1967.[1] He earned a Ph.D in physics at Caltech in 1971 under Willy Fowler. After a brief time as faculty at the University of Texas at Austin he accepted a professorship at the University of Chicago, where he spent the rest of his career.

Schramm received the Robert J. Trumpler Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1974, the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy from the American Astronomical Society in 1978, and he was awarded the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize from the American Physical Society in 1993. Schramm died in December 1997.

Schramm was one of the world's foremost experts on the Big Bang theory. Schramm was a pioneer in the study of nucleosynthesis and its use as a probe of dark matter (both baryonic and non-baryonic) and of neutrinos. He also made important contributions to the study of cosmic rays, supernova explosions, and heavy-element nucleosynthesis.The David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism was created in his honor in the year 2000 by the High-Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society.

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December 2012