Bernhard Schmidt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Baltic German astronomer
Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1879
Place of Birth: Naissaar, Harju County, Estonia
Date of Death: 01-Dec-1935
Profession: astronomer
Nationality: Germany, Estonia
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Bernhard Schmidt
- Bernhard Woldemar Schmidt (11 April [O.S.
- 30 March] 1879, Nargen – 1 December 1935, Hamburg) was a Baltic German 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 research.
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