Schramm, David N. Papers 1960-1998

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Schramm, David N. Papers 1960-1998

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David N. Schramm (1945-1997), Astrophysicist and University of Chicago Professor and administrator. Schramm was a world leader in theoretical astrophysics and perhaps the leading authority on the Big-Bang model of the formation of the universe. His most fundamental contribution may have been his calculation of the number of families of elementary particles in the universe. The Papers document his career as a scientist, teacher and administrator.

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David N. Schramm was born on Oct. 25, 1945, in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his M.A. and S.B. in physics from MIT in 1967, and studied physics with Gerald Wasserberg and Nobel laureate William Fowler at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in 1971. Schramm was also a champion Greco-Roman wrestler who competed in college and graduate school, and was a finalist in the 1968 Olympic trials. He coached the Caltech wrestling team to three consecutive confe...