Maarten Schmidt
Dutch-born American astronomer
Died when: 92 years 263 days (1112 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
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.
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