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On this day in 1891 – September 30th – Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer and geophysicist Otto Yulyevich Schmidt was born in Mogilev, Russian Empire (now Belarus).

A graduate of Kiev University in 1913, Schmidt became professor of geophysics at the Institute of Earth Physics in Moscow where he specialized in the study of lunar surface.


Mona Evans
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