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David
Norman Schramm (October
25, 1945 – December 19, 1997) was an American astrophysicist and educator, and one of the world's
foremost experts on the Big Bang theory. Schramm was a
pioneer in establishing particle astrophysics as
a vibrant research field. He was particularly well known for the study of Big Bang 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, heavy-element nucleosynthesis, and nuclear astrophysics generally.
David Schramm was born in St. Louis, Missouri and earned his master's degree in physics from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967, where he
was also a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and the wrestling squad. He
earned a Ph.D in physics at Caltech in 1971 under Willy Fowler and Gerry Wasserburg. 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 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. He was elected to the National Academy of
Sciences in 1986. Schramm, an avid private pilot, died on 19
December 1997, when his Swearingen-Fairchild SA-226 crashed near Denver, Colorado. He was the sole occupant of
the aircraft. The National
Transportation Safety Board found the cause to be pilot error.
At the time of his death he was Vice President for Research and Louis Block
Distinguished Service Professor in the Physical Sciences at the University of Chicago. The David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics
Science Journalism was created in his honour in the year 2000 by the
High-Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society. Fermilab hosts the David Schramm Fellowship in theoretical or
experimental astrophysics. Schramm also leaves a legacy of former graduate
students and postdocs, many of whom work in astrophysics around the world,
including Brian Fields (Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of Illinois), Katherine Freese (George
Uhlenbeck Professor at the University of Michigan and Director of Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm), Craig Hogan (Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of Chicago and Director of the Fermilab Center for Astroparticle Physics), James Lattimer (Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, SUNY Stony
Brook), Angela Olinto (Chair, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Chicago), Keith Olive (Director of
the William I Fine Theoretical Physics
Institute at the University of Minnesota), and many others. Asteroid 113952 Schramm, discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point Observatory in 2002, was named in his memory.[7] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 2010 (M.P.C. 68449).
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