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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.
Maarten Schmidt, Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, at Caltech, passed away on Saturday, September 17, 2022. He was 92 years old. Schmidt is best known for his 1963 discovery of quasars—ferociously bright and faraway cosmic objects powered by supermassive black holes.
Sep 22, 2022 · Maarten Schmidt, who in 1963 became the first astronomer to identify a quasar, a small, intensely bright object several billion light years away, and in the process upended standard...
Maarten Schmidt was a Dutch-born American astronomer whose identification of the wavelengths of the radiation emitted by quasars (quasi-stellar objects) led to the theory that they may be among the most distant, as well as the oldest, objects ever observed.
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Sep 23, 2022 · Maarten Schmidt, astronomer whose discovery of quasars revealed the solar bodies that roam the universe, dies at 92.
Sep 23, 2022 · Learn how the Dutch-American astronomer discovered the first quasar spectrum and its redshift, providing evidence for the Big Bang theory. Read about his life, career and achievements in this obituary by Paul Sutter.
Learn about the Dutch astronomer who discovered the redshift of quasars and won the 2008 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. Read his autobiography, from his childhood in World War II to his career in Leiden and California.
