Maarten Schmidt
Maarten Schmidt | |
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Schmidt in 1978 | |
| Born | 28 December 1929 Groningen, Netherlands |
| Died | 17 September 2022 (aged 92) Fresno, California, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | Leiden Observatory |
| Known for | Quasars |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Jan Oort |
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.