Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many thanks for capturing in your Schmidt cover [March 11] the essence and excitement of man's closest approach to creation-his deepest penetration yet into the fundamentals of a universe being revealed by astrophysics...
...excellent story on Schmidt's quasars and discussion of the possibility that they may have been ejected from our galaxy. Reports on the death of this idea have been greatly exaggerated. The energy problem is considerably simpler on this basis than on the conventional basis of immense distance. The receding hydrogen cloud discovered by Koehler in front of 3C 273 can more plausibly be interpreted as ejected from our galaxy, in the same manner as in other galaxies, than as part of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. The local model of quasars also has the advantage of accounting...
...Schmidt was warmly accepted in Pasadena. "He was an ideal product of the Dutch school," says Jesse Greenstein. "In this country we tend to stress atomic and nuclear physics in astronomy. Schmidt came to us with more classical training. He had, and still has good sharp eyes at the telescope, an old-fashioned virtue in science...
When his two-year fellowship ended, Schmidt returned home, intent on educating his daughters in Holland. But the lure of Southern California was too great. "Those big telescopes are a little like drugs," he explains. "Once you've worked with them, it's hard not to return." In 1959 he accepted the offer of an assistant professorship at Caltech and came back to Pasadena. The following year, after immersing himself in the specialties of his American colleagues-spectroscopy, cosmic radiation and extragalactic phenomena-he took over the job of retiring Astronomer Rudolph Minkowski, who had been working...
...bright undergraduate and graduate students. This semester, however, normal staff rotation has left him without any classes, enabling him to devote full time to the pursuit of his quasars. Despite the challenges of his job, though, he takes pains never to miss dinner at home. "It is," says Corrie Schmidt, "the only time he really has with the children." At bedtime, Anne, 5, Maryke, 7, and Elizabeth, 9, all stand prim and proper in line, awaiting their ritual kus (Dutch for kiss) from Daddy...