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Otto Schmidt
Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 18 September 1891, 30 September 1891
- Died
- 7 September 1956
- Place of birth
- Mahilyow
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Otto
- Family name
- Schmidt
- Spouse
- Vera Schmidt
- Field of work
- group theory, astronomy, mathematics, geography, geophysics, psychoanalysis
- Occupation
- astronomer, mathematician, explorer, politician, university teacher, physicist, statesperson, psychoanalyst, geophysicist, geographer, traveler
- Position held
- deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, director, Privatdozent, editor-in-chief, head of department, editor-in-chief, expedition leader, director, chief manager, vice president, director
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Russian Republic, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union
- Native language
- Russian
- Awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union, Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Red Star, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
- academic degree
- master's degree
- academic thesis
- Q100272226
- archives at
- Archive RAS
- birth name
- Отто-Фридрихъ-Юліусъ Юльевичъ Шмидтъ
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Faces of Moscow, Astronomers: A Biographical Reference
- different from
- Otto Schmidt
- doctoral advisor
- Dmitry Grave
- doctoral student
- Vladimir Andrunakievich, Sergey Antonovich Chunikhin, Leopold Yakovlevich Okunev, Aleksandr Antipovich Kulakov, Aleksey Petrovich Ditsman, Vladimir Konstantinovich Turkin
- educated at
- Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Kyiv University, Second Kyevan gymnasium, Mogilev Male Gymnasium
- employer
- Russian Academy of Sciences, Imperial University of St. Vladimir, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, RSFSR People's Commissariat on Food, OGIZ, Matematicheskii Sbornik, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Russian Academy of Sciences
- ethnic group
- Baltic Germans
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
- member of political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (of Internationalists)
- name in native language
- Отто Юльевич Шмидт
- notable work
- Krull–Schmidt theorem, Great Soviet Encyclopedia, Q4235035, Northern Sea Route, Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth
- patronym or matronym
- Yulyevich
- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- professorship
- member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, full professor
- work location
- Pamir Mountains, Arctic, Soviet Union
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