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Maarten Schmidt

1929 - 2022

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maarten Schmidt is the 300th most popular astronomer (up from 321st in 2019), the 481st most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 574th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Dutch Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Maarten Schmidt ranks 300 out of 644Before him are Grigory Neujmin, Eugene Parker, Frank Muller, Mashallah ibn Athari, Thomas Romney Robinson, and David Gill. After him are Iosif Shklovsky, Christine Kirch, Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi, Philippe van Lansberge, Luigi Carnera, and Charles Dillon Perrine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Maarten Schmidt ranks 224Before him are Eric Carle, Luigi Taveri, Lee Hazlewood, Ronald Golias, Ronnie Biggs, and Hal Ashby. After him are Fazil Iskander, Józef Glemp, Liselotte Pulver, Barbara Walters, Roger Bannister, and June Squibb. Among people deceased in 2022, Maarten Schmidt ranks 198Before him are Rupiah Banda, Herman Van Springel, Fred Brooks, Eugene Parker, Kitten Natividad, and Dominique Lapierre. After him are Kunimitsu Takahashi, Elza Soares, Barbara Walters, Jüri Tarmak, Alec John Such, and Francisco Morales Bermúdez.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Maarten Schmidt ranks 481 out of 1,646Before him are Barend Biesheuvel (1920), Eduard van Beinum (1900), Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873), Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587), Carel Godin de Beaufort (1934), and Hennie Kuiper (1949). After him are Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz (1710), Willem Drost (1633), Pierre Cuypers (1827), Junkie XL (1967), Willem de Vlamingh (1640), and Wiel Coerver (1924).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Netherlands

Among astronomers born in Netherlands, Maarten Schmidt ranks 10Before him are Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692), Tom Gehrels (1925), Jacobus Kapteyn (1851), Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920), John Goodricke (1764), and Adriaan Blaauw (1914). After him are Hendrik van Gent (1900), Michael van Langren (1598), Walter Lewin (1936), Dirk Brouwer (1902), Peter van de Kamp (1901), and Bart Bok (1906).