Gerhard Schmidt (crystallographer)
Gerhard Martin Julius Schmidt | |
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גרהרד מרטין יוליוס שמידט | |
| Born | August 21, 1919 |
| Died | July 12, 1971 (aged 51) |
| Resting place | Rehovot, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (Oriel College) |
| Known for | Combining crystallography with chemistry and photochemistry |
| Spouse | Esther Schmidt |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | X-ray crystallography, organic chemistry, solid-state chemistry |
| Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Robinson Dorothy Hodgkin |
Gerhard Martin Julius Schmidt (Hebrew: גרהרד מרטין יוליוס שמידט; 21 August 1919 in Berlin – 12 July 1971, in Zurich, buried in Rehovot), was an organic chemist and chemical crystallographer, dean of the chemistry faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science, and its scientific director in 1969. 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.