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Maarten Schmidt

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Dutch astronomer (1929-2022)

United StatesScientistsLived 1929 to 2022 · aged 92
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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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2008Kavli Prize in Astrophysics
1993Petrie Prize Lecture
1992Bruce Medal
1991James Craig Watson Medal
1980Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
1979Karl G. Jansky Lectureship
1978Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
1968Karl Schwarzschild Medal
1968Rumford Prize
1964Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy

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Margaret BurbidgeAlso won Helen B. Warner Prize for AstronomyGrote ReberAlso won Karl G. Jansky LectureshipWalter Sydney AdamsAlso won Henry Norris Russell LectureshipEwine van DishoeckAlso won James Craig Watson MedalWendy FreedmanAlso won Petrie Prize LectureBernard LyotAlso won Bruce Medal

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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
Status
deceased
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Lived 1929 to 2022 · aged 92
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