biography
| name: |
Schmidt, Bernhard Voldemar
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pronunciation:
[shmit]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1935)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Naissaar, N Estonia. He studied at an engineering school in Mittweida, Germany, where he remained until 1926, helping to install a small observatory. He became a staff member at Hamburg observatory (1926), and in 1930 devised a new optical system for reflecting telescopes which overcame previous problems of aberration of the image, and which is now widely used in astronomy. |
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