# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maarten-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:36:37.902Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/maarten-schmidt"
name: "Maarten Schmidt"
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description: "Maarten Schmidt 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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country:
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birthDate: "1929-12-28"
deathDate: "2022-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump