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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).