Gerhard Carl Schmidt Explained

Gerhard Carl Schmidt
Birth Date:	1865 7, df=y
Birth Place:	London, United Kingdom
Nationality:	German
Death Place:	Münster Germany
Field:	chemistry
Alma Mater:	University of Basel
Doctoral Advisor:	Georg Wilhelm August Kahlbaum
Academic Advisors:	Eilhard Wiedemann

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.^[1] Schmidt died of a stroke in Münster 16 October 1949.^[2]

See also

• List of multiple discoveries

External links

• Schmidt, Gerhard, Carl, Nathaniel: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Retrieved September 03, 2019 from Encyclopedia.com

Notes and References

1. G. C. Schmidt. Über die von den Thorverbindungen und einigen anderen Substanzen ausgehende Strahlung (On the radiation emitted by thorium compounds and some other substances) . Annalen der Physik und Chemie . 65. 141–151. 1898.
2. Gerhard Carl Schmidt . Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau . 1951 . 4 . 41.