PHYSICIST

Otto Schmidt

1891 - 1956

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Otto Yulyevich Shmidt (born Otto Friedrich Julius Schmidt; 30 September [O.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Schmidt has received more than 174,423 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Otto Schmidt is the 335th most popular physicist (down from 318th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 46th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Otto Schmidt ranks 335 out of 851Before him are Daniel C. Tsui, Félix Savart, Joseph Swan, Pierre Louis Dulong, Ami Argand, and Donna Strickland. After him are Frank Wilczek, Ferenc Krausz, Frank Oppenheimer, Philip Abelson, John Stewart Bell, and John Theophilus Desaguliers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Otto Schmidt ranks 48Before him are Michael Polanyi, Otto Rasch, Anton Dostler, John Langenus, Bronislava Nijinska, and Olga Khokhlova. After him are Cole Porter, Pier Luigi Nervi, Walter A. Shewhart, Karl-Adolf Hollidt, Takijirō Ōnishi, and Shukri al-Quwatli. Among people deceased in 1956, Otto Schmidt ranks 53Before him are Art Tatum, Lyonel Feininger, Savielly Tartakower, Erich Kleiber, Hiram Bingham III, and Infante Alfonso of Spain. After him are Max Emmerich, Drastamat Kanayan, Thomas J. Watson, Pío Baroja, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, and Michael Ventris.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Otto Schmidt ranks 44 out of 368Before him are Vilna Gaon (1720), Ivan Yakubovsky (1912), Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745), Aleksei Antonov (1896), Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835), and Bronislava Nijinska (1891). After him are Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł (1515), Paul Baran (1926), Euphrosyne of Polotsk (1110), Ignacy Domeyko (1802), Vasil Bykaŭ (1924), and Yakov Zeldovich (1914).

Among PHYSICISTS In Belarus

Among physicists born in Belarus, Otto Schmidt ranks 2Before him are Zhores Alferov (1930). After him are Yakov Zeldovich (1914), Leonid Mandelstam (1879), and Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (1845).