Gerhard Schmidt (crystallographer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Israeli scientist
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Gerhard Schmidt (crystallographer)
- Gerhard Martin Julius Schmidt (born, 21 August 1919 in Berlin – died July 12, 1971 in Zurich, buried in Rehovot), organic chemist and chemical crystallographer, director of the Weizmann Institute of Science in the late 1950s and again in the late 1960s.
- Schmidt was the founder of X-ray crystallography at the Weizmann Institute and in Israel – a field in which Weizmann Institute's Professor Ada Yonath was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009.
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