Bernhard Schmidt

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Bernhard Schmidt (March 30, 1879–December 1, 1935) was an Estonian-born optician who lived in Germany. In 1931 he invented the Schmidt telescope which corrected for spherical aberration by placing a corrector lens in front of the mirror.

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