Schwarzschild

This article is about the surname and those bearing it. For other uses, see Schwarzschild (disambiguation).

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Schwarzschild 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

Footnotes

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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) represents very close to the same sound value as English sh,
- German w represents very close the same sound value as English v, and
- German z represents very close the same sound value as English ts.
Especially the second syllable has, not uncommonly, the s that begins it omitted in writing and speaking, and is then likely pronounced like the English homophones child and childe (instead of approximating either English shield or German Schild).

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