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Maarten Schmidt

Maarten Schmidt
Maarten Schmidt, Dutch astronomer (d. 2022)

Maarten Schmidt 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.

28 December 1929

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