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2 unusual facts about Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.


Benno Schmidt

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., former president of Yale University, currently associated with Edison Schools

Lee Bass

In 1991, under the presidency of Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., he donated $20 million to Yale University to start a new program in Western civilization.


Alfred De Sève

His compositional output includes works for violin and piano, solo piano, and orchestra; many of which were published by Arthur P. Schmidt and Charles H. Ditson.

Arthur P. Schmidt

Schmidt also edited The Old Man and the Sea (1958-directed by John Sturges).

He worked on several of the Bulldog Drummond B-movies, The Blue Dahlia (1946) and When Worlds Collide (1951).

One of Schmidt's sons, Arthur R. Schmidt, is also a notable film editor who has won Academy Awards for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Forrest Gump (1994).

Crüe Ball

This game was designed by two people who actually worked on pinball games: Mark Sprenger (artist for such games as 1984's Space Shuttle and 1986's High Speed) and Brian L. Schmidt (composer for Black Knight 2000 and various pinball games by Data East Pinball/Sega Pinball (now Stern Pinball, Inc.).

Gary Schmidt

Gary J. Schmidt (born 1947), former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Gnomium

Gerhard Krüss and F. W. Schmidt thought that existence of this element would solve an apparent problem in the periodic table.

Henry Schmidt

Henry C. Schmidt (born 1937), associate professor of history at Texas A&M University

John E. Hunter

Hunter received the Distinguished Scientific Award for Contributions to Applied Psychology (joint with Frank L. Schmidt), and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) (also joint with Schmidt).

Kalman filter

Stanley F. Schmidt is generally credited with developing the first implementation of a Kalman filter.

LattisNet

SynOptics' co-founder, Engineer Ronald V. Schmidt, had experimented with a fiber-optic variant of Ethernet called Fibernet II while working at Xerox PARC, where Ethernet had been invented.

Manfred Schmidt

Manfred G. Schmidt (born 1948), German professor of political science

Mark Alan Hewitt

Hewitt, Mark Alan, Architecture of Mott B. Schmidt, Rizzoli, New York 1991, ISBN 978-0-8478-1399-5

Michael Schmidt

Michael S. Schmidt (born 1983), correspondent for The New York Times

Michael Stal

Douglas C. Schmidt, Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert, Frank Buschmann Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture - Patterns for Cuncurrent and Networked Objects, Wiley & Sons, 2000, ISBN 0-471-60695-2

Myrmecology

Justin O. Schmidt, studies the chemical and behavioral defenses of ants, wasps, and arachnids

Oliver Huntemann

The early sessions in Frerichs' studio, aided by jazz musician H.G. Schmidt, led to the creation of the Humate project.

Pitcairnia loki-schmidtiae

The species is named after Hannelore "Loki" Schmidt, wife of former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt.

Reinhold O. Schmidt

The film, Edge of Tomorrow, begins with Schmidt being interviewed by an actor resembling Long John Nebel.

Richard E. Schmidt

Schmidt was born in Ebern, Bavaria and brought to America by his parents at the age of one.

Richard Schmidt

Richard E. Schmidt (1865–1958), American architect of the Chicago School

Richard J. Schmidt, American, first person convicted of a crime on evidence from viral DNA analysis

Rudolf E. Kálmán

Kálmán had more success in presenting his ideas, however, while visiting Stanley F. Schmidt at the NASA Ames Research Center in 1960.

Schmidt–Kalman filter

Stanley F. Schmidt developed the Schmidt–Kalman filter as a method to account for unobservable biases while maintaining the low dimensionality required for implementation in real time systems.

Section Seven of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

In Canada v. Schmidt (1987), the Supreme Court found that government decisions to extradite people are bound by section 7.

Slovenian Museum of Natural History

The insect collection of Ferdinand J. Schmidt includes several interesting specimens, notably the "narrow-necked" blind cave beetles (Leptodirus hochenwartii) that were described in 1831 as the first cave insect.

Stanley F. Schmidt

From 1962 to 1966, Dr. Schmidt was a senior Staff Scientist with Philco's Western Development Laboratory.

From 1946 to 1961, he was with NASA Ames Research Center, where he discovered the utility of the Kalman filter as applied to data processing for the nonlinear navigation equations of the manned lunar mission.

VOF de Kunst

The group has also produced albums of traditional festive songs and songs based on nursery rhymes and the works of Annie M. G. Schmidt.

William A. Schmidt

Schmidt would remain a member of the Senate through 1956, but did not run for re-election, but instead ran for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin; Schmidt and gubernatorial running mate William Proxmire lost in the general election.

William R. Schmidt

He stayed in this position until 1923, when he was transferred back to the Hawai.


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