David Schramm (astrophysicist)

David Norman Schramm ( born October 25, 1945 in St. Louis, Missouri, † December 19, 1997 in Denver, Colorado in a plane crash ) was an American astrophysicist.

Schramm studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor 1965) and at Caltech ( California Institute of Technology), where he received his doctorate in 1971. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, 1974 Associate Professor at the University of Chicago and 1977 Professor at the city's Enrico Fermi Institute 1972. From 1982 until his death he was there Louis Block Professor of Physical Sciences. At the same time he was there from 1978 to 1984 professor of astrophysics. He was a visiting scientist at the University of Cambridge (1972 ), at the University of California, Berkeley ( 1992), Carnegie Mellon University (1985) and at SLAC (1977). 1981-1997 he was adjunct professor at the University of Utah.

He dealt with the Big Bang theory, the leading expert he was in the 1970s and 1980s. As one of the first he entered for the account of the dark matter.

1974 Schramm received the Robert J. Trumpler Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 1978 awarded him the American Astronomical Society, the Helen B. Warner Prize, American Physical Society 1993 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize. In 1986 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences. 1975-1997 he was adviser to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1992 to 1997 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and from 1982 to 1997 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Schramm died on 19 December 1997 in a plane crash near Denver, Colorado, when he ( a Swearingen - Fairchild SA 226) maneuvered his own aircraft in solo flight.

On 30 January 2010, an asteroid was named after him: ( 113952 ) Schramm.