Gerhard Schmidt(biochemist)
Gerhard Schmidt may refer to: * Gerhard Schmidt (biochemist) (1901–1981), biochemist * Gerhard Schmidt (crystallographer) (1919–1971), organic chemist and chemical crystallographer * Gerhard Carl Schmidt (1865–1949), German chemist * Gerhard Schmidt (art historian) Gerhard Schmidt (11 May 1924 - 3 April 2010) was professor of the history of art at the University of Vienna. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research univer ...

Gerhard Schmidt (biochemist)
Gerhard Schmidt (26 December 1901 – 30 April 1981) was a German-born physician and biochemist who was regarded as "a world authority on nucleic acids and phospholipids." Career Life in Germany He was born in Stuttgart, where his father Julius Schmidt was a professor of chemistry at the University of Stuttgart. He studied medicine at the University of Tübingen and the Goethe University Frankfurt, and earned a doctorate at the Goethe University under the supervision of the university's then-rector Gustav Embden in 1926. He then worked as a research assistant and as a ''Privatdozent'' at the Goethe University's department of biochemistry and at the Senckenberg Institute of Pathology, where he was a collaborator and protégé of the institute's director and rector of the Goethe University Bernhard Fischer-Wasels. Following the Nazi takeover of Germany, he immediately faced persecution due to his Jewish background. Herman Kalckar notes: Refugee and life in the United States ...
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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, 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. Early years Professor Gerhard Schmidt was born in Berlin in 1919 and went to high school in Munich, where his father was a professor of chemistry. Being the son of a Jewish mother, Gerhard was forced to leave Germany at the age of 16, after the Nazis came to power; he spent a year in Switzerland, then moved to England, where he finished high school in 1938. He then won a scholarship to study at the University of Oxford (Oriel College). He earned a master's degree in organic chemistry in 1942 under the guidance of Rob ...
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Gerhard Carl Schmidt
Gerhard Carl Schmidt (5 July 1865 – 16 October 1949) was a German chemist. Life Schmidt was born in London to German parents. He studied chemistry and in 1890 received his PhD for work with Georg Wilhelm August Kahlbaum. In 1898, two months before Marie Curie, Schmidt discovered that thorium is radioactive. Schmidt died of a stroke in Münster 16 October 1949. See also * List of multiple discoveries Historians and sociologists have remarked upon the occurrence, in science, of " multiple independent discovery". Robert K. Merton defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar discoveries are made by scientists working independently of ea ... References External links ''Schmidt, Gerhard, Carl, Nathaniel: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Retrieved September 03, 2019 from Encyclopedia.com'' 1865 births 1949 deaths 19th-century German chemists 20th-century German chemists {{Germany-chemist-stub ...
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