Maarten Schmidt
Dutch-American astronomer (1929–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maarten Schmidt (28 December 1929 – 17 September 2022) was a Dutch-born American astronomer who first measured the distances of quasars. He was the first astronomer to identify a quasar, and so was pictured on the March cover of Time magazine in 1966.
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Born | (1929-12-28)28 December 1929 Groningen, Netherlands |
Died | 17 September 2022(2022-09-17) (aged 92) Fresno, California, U.S. |
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Alma mater | Leiden Observatory |
Known for | Quasars |
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Fields | Astronomy |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
Doctoral advisor | Jan Oort |
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