Maarten Schmidt

Dutch astronomer (1929-2022) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 92

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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2022Died17 September 20222008Kavli Prize in AstrophysicsAward1993Petrie Prize LectureAward1992Bruce MedalAward1991James Craig Watson MedalAward1980Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical SocietyAward1979Karl G. Jansky LectureshipAward1978Henry Norris Russell LectureshipAward1968Karl Schwarzschild MedalAwardRumford PrizeAward1964Helen B. Warner Prize for AstronomyAward1929Born28 December 1929

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