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Maarten Schmidt

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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Quasars
Alma mater
Leiden Observatory
Born
(1929-12-28)28 December 1929 Groningen, Netherlands
Died
17 September 2022(2022-09-17) (aged 92) Fresno, California, U.S.
Doctoral advisor
Jan Oort
Fields
Astronomy

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Maarten Schmidt → Leiden Observatory
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Maarten Schmidt → (1929-12-28)28 December 1929 Groningen, Netherlands
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Maarten Schmidt → 17 September 2022(2022-09-17) (aged 92) Fresno, California, U.S.
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