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Maarten Schmidt, Dutch astronomer (died 2022)
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Maarten Schmidt
Dutch-American astronomer (1929–2022)
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.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
December 28
Day of the year
December 28 is the 362nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; three days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)