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Otto Schmidt

1891 - 1956

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Otto Yulyevich Shmidt (born Otto Friedrich Julius Schmidt; 30 September [O.S. 18 September] 1891 – 7 September 1956), better known as Otto Schmidt, was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, and academician. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Schmidt is the 406th most popular physicist (down from 335th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 44th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belarusian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Otto Schmidt ranks 406 out of 851Before him are Takaaki Kajita, Tom Kibble, Paul Drude, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Samuel Goudsmit, and Yoshio Nishina. After him are Jacob Bekenstein, Nick Holonyak, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Edwin Hall, Oskar Klein, and Philip Abelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Otto Schmidt ranks 78Before him are Hans F. K. Günther, Kim Seong-su, Poul Nielsen, Johannes R. Becher, Kálmán Kalocsay, and Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin. After him are Bruno Loerzer, Jüri Lossmann, Hermann Scherchen, Grunya Sukhareva, Seth Barnes Nicholson, and Tin Ujević. Among people deceased in 1956, Otto Schmidt ranks 73Before him are Jehanne D'Alcy, Felix Bernstein, Elmer Drew Merrill, Charles Joughin, Gerrit Smith Miller, and Mir Jafar Baghirov. After him are Michael Ventris, Jean Metzinger, Erhard Raus, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Infante Alfonso of Spain, and Lev Rudnev.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Otto Schmidt ranks 56 out of 368Before him are Paul Baran (1926), Yevno Azef (1869), Ignacy Domeyko (1802), Fyodor Kuznetsov (1898), Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł (1512), and Mikhail Borodin (1884). After him are Lew Sapieha (1557), Dawid Janowski (1868), Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł (1515), Abba Kovner (1918), Oscar Milosz (1877), and Kazimierz Łyszczyński (1634).

Among PHYSICISTS In Belarus

Among physicists born in Belarus, Otto Schmidt ranks 3Before him are Zhores Alferov (1930), and Yakov Zeldovich (1914). After him are Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (1845), and Leonid Mandelstam (1879).