Karl Schwarzschild Medal

The Karl Schwarzschild Medal, named after the astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild, is an award presented by the Astronomische Gesellschaft (German Astronomical Society) to eminent astronomers and astrophysicists.^[1]^[2]

Year	Name
2025	Paola Caselli
2024	Anton Zensus
2023	Thomas Henning
2022	Hans-Thomas Janka^[3]
2021	Jocelyn Bell
2020	Friedrich-Karl Thielemann
2019	Ewine van Dishoeck
2018	Andrzej Udalski
2017	Richard Wielebinski [de]
2016	Robert Williams^[4]
2015	Immo Appenzeller
2014	Margaret Geller^[5]
2013	Karl-Heinz Rädler^[6]
2012	Sandra M. Faber
2011	Reinhard Genzel^[7]
2010	Michel Mayor
2009	Rolf-Peter Kudritzki^[8]
2008	Rashid Sunyaev
2007	Rudolf Kippenhahn
2005	Gustav Andreas Tammann
2004	Riccardo Giacconi
2003	Erika Boehm-Vitense
2002	Charles H. Townes
2001	Keiichi Kodaira [de]
2000	Roger Penrose
1999	Jeremiah P. Ostriker
1998	Peter A. Strittmatter
1997	Joseph H. Taylor
1996	Kip Thorne
1995	Hendrik C. van de Hulst
1994	Joachim Trümper [de]
1993	Raymond Wilson
1992	Fred Hoyle
1990	Eugene N. Parker
1989	Martin J. Rees
1987	Lodewijk Woltjer
1986	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1985	Edwin E. Salpeter
1984	Daniel M. Popper
1983	Donald Lynden-Bell
1982	Jean Delhaye
1981	Bohdan Paczyński
1980	Ludwig Biermann
1978	George B. Field
1977	Wilhelm Becker
1975	Lyman Spitzer
1974	Cornelis de Jager
1972	Jan H. Oort
1971	Antony Hewish
1969	Bengt Strömgren
1968	Maarten Schmidt
1963	Charles Fehrenbach
1959	Martin Schwarzschild (son of Karl Schwarzschild)

Recipients