Bernhard Schmidt

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…

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Who was born first?

• Bernhard Schmidt and Pierre Cérésole were born the same year
• Bernhard Schmidt and Owen Willans Richardson were born the same year
• Bernhard Schmidt and Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted were born the same year
• Bernhard Schmidt and Guido Fubini were born the same year
• Bernhard Schmidt and Leonid Mandelstam were born the same year

Timeline

1. Bernhard Schmidt (this page)March 30, 1879 – December 1, 1935
2. Guido FubiniJanuary 19, 1879 – June 6, 1943
3. Johannes Nicolaus BrønstedFebruary 22, 1879 – December 17, 1947
4. Leonid MandelstamMay 4, 1879 – November 27, 1944
5. Owen Willans RichardsonApril 26, 1879 – February 15, 1959
6. Pierre CérésoleAugust 17, 1879 – October 23, 1945

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