About David N. Schramm
David N. Schramm co-founded the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at
Fermilab and continued a long association with the group until his tragic
death in an airplane crash in 1997. Schramm received his PhD from Caltech
and went on to become the Vice President for Research
and the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor in the Physical
Sciences at the University of Chicago. At Chicago, he was a Professor in
the Department of Physics, the Department of Astronomy
and Astrophysics, the Committee on
Conceptual Foundations of Science, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the
College.
His research covered a variety of topics in theoretical astrophysics
and cosmology including supernovae, dark matter, the age of the universe
and the origin of elements. He is perhaps best known for his work unifying
the fields of big bang cosmology and elementary particle physics.
Schramm, who was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1986, and
fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994, and the
Hungarian Academy of Science and the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in 1995, and was a fellow of the American
Physical Society since 1975, was the recipient of numerous awards
including the 1st annual Robert J. Trumpler Award of the Astronomical Society of the
Pacific in 1976, the 1978 Helen B. Warner Prize of the American
Astronomical Society, the 1980 Gravity Research Prize, the 1984 Richtmeyer
Memorial Award of the American Association of Physics Teachers, the 1989
Einstein Medal from Etvs University in Budapest, Hungary, and the 1993
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society.
His numerous published writings included over 300 scientific articles,
several dozen non-technical articles and book reviews, and over a dozen
books, including From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery with Leon
Lederman, a Scientific American Library Book (New York, W.H. Freeman,
1989) and Shadows of Creation with E.M. Riordan, forward by S. Hawking
(New York: W. H. Freeman, 1990).
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