Maarten Schmidt
Dutch-American astronomer
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. Wikipedia
Born: December 28, 1929, Groningen, Netherlands
Died: September 17, 2022 (age 92 years), Fresno, CA
Doctoral advisor: Jan Oort