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Maarten Schmidt, Dutch astronomer (born 1929)
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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)
September 17
Day of the year
September 17 is the 260th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 105 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)