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Maarten Schmidt
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Maarten Schmidt

Maarten Schmidt (born December 28 1929) is a Dutch astronomer.

He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1980. He won the James Craig Watson Medal in 1991 and the Bruce Medal in 1992.

He has studied quasars extensively, and was the first to detect their very high redshifts.

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