Maarten Schmidt
Maarten Schmidt (born December 28, 1929 in Groningen ) is a Dutch astronomer working in the USA .
Schmidt studied at the University of Leiden with Jan Hendrik Oort . In 1959, after completing his doctorate, he went to the USA to work at the California Institute of Technology . Schmidt became famous for his discovery in 1963 that quasars are objects at high redshifts in the distant universe. He later led one of the first major sky surveys for quasars, the Palomar Bright Quasar Survey. As early as 1959, he had proposed a connection between gas density in a galaxy and the rate of star formation in the form of a power law. This Schmidt-Kennicutt law is still widely used today in studies of the evolution of galaxies.
Awards and memberships
- 1964 Helen B. Warner Prize , American Astronomical Society
- 1968 Karl Schwarzschild Medal , Astronomical Society
- 1968 Rumford Prize
- 1969 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1978 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
- 1978 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1979 Jansky Prize, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- 1980 Gold Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society
- 1991 James Craig Watson Medal , National Academy of Sciences
- 1992 Bruce Medal , Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- 1993 Petrie Prize Lecture
- 1995 member of the Leopoldina
- 2000 member of the American Philosophical Society
- 2008 Kavli Prize
The asteroid (10430) Martschmidt was named after him.
Web links
- Schmidt's former homepage at Caltech (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 21, 2016
- ^ Member entry by Maarten Schmidt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 20, 2016.
- ↑ Member History: Maarten Schmidt. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 7, 2018 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schmidt, Maarten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groningen |