Figure timeline
Bernhard Woldemar Schmidt was an Estonian optician. In 1930 he invented the Schmidt telescope, which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making possible for the first time the construction of very large, wide-angled reflective cameras of short exposure time for astronomical research.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
science · Estonian optician (1879–1935) · astronomer · physicist · also Bernhard Schmidt, Schmidt
Born 30 March 1879 · Died 1 December 1935 · Q520703
22 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
3 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
s lifetime, indeed an invention that revolutionized astronomy and optical design in the second half of the 20th century, namely his wide-angle reflective camera. The Schmidt camera Astronomers had long wished for a way to photograph large swathes of the sky quickly for the purpose of surveying the visible contents of the universe and seeing large-scale structures. Ordinary telescopes up till Schmidt
“s lifetime, indeed an invention that revolutionized astronomy and optical design in the second half of the 20th century, namely his wide-angle reflective camera. The Schmidt camera Astronomers had long wished for a way to photograph large swathes of the sky quickly for the purpose of surveying the visible contents of the universe and seeing large-scale structures. Ordinary telescopes up till Schmidt”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published “Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019” in Journal of the American College of Cardiology — cited 10,364 times.
Published “IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era” in Molecular Biology and Evolution — cited 16,674 times.
Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,099 times.
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,032 times.
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,763 times.
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,889 times.
Published “IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies” in Molecular Biology and Evolution — cited 24,695 times.
Published “A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations” in Nature Methods — cited 11,772 times.
Published “Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant” in The Astronomical Journal — cited 16,327 times.
Published “General atomic and molecular electronic structure system” in Journal of Computational Chemistry — cited 19,156 times.
Published “Multiple emitter location and signal parameter estimation” in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation — cited 12,176 times.
A large, well-constructed Schmidt was dedicated
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
And then twelve years later, the famous 48 in (120 cm) Samuel Oschin telescope Schmidt-telescope was built at Mount Palomar Observatory
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Died 1935-12-01.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
And reground the 60 cm Bergedorf-Steinheil photographic refractor as well
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Invented the Schmidt telescope, which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making possible for the first time the construction of very large, wide-angled reflective cameras
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
A breakthrough which caused a sensation around the world
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
And many people lost their entire savings
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Went to Gothenburg, Sweden, to study at the Chalmers University of Technology, but soon thereafter switched to the University of Mittweida in the Kingdom of Saxony to further his education
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Moved to Tallinn, and for a time worked at retouching photographs
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born 1879-03-30.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Connections