Other flying aces who served with the squadron included Hans Auer, Otto Schmidt, Fritz Kieckhäfer, Hans Rolfes, Helmut Brünig, Arno Benzler, and Emil Koch.
Named in 1954 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Professor Otto Schmidt, director of the Arctic Institute at Leningrad in 1930-32, head of the Chief Administration of the Northern Sea Route in 1932-39, and leader of many Arctic expeditions.
Otto von Bismarck | Helmut Schmidt | Otto | Otto III | Otto Piene | Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor | Otto I | Otto Preminger | Otto II | Otto Dix | Otto Natzler | Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor | Otto Binder | Eric Schmidt | Otto Skorzeny | Otto Schenk | Otto of Brunswick | Otto Kerner, Jr. | Helle Thorning-Schmidt | Otto Steinbrinck | Otto Kerner | Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor | Otto IV | Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor | Otto Braun | Miranda Otto | Harold von Schmidt | Hans Schmidt | Frei Otto | Otto-Werner Mueller |
Scientists, such as Alexander Karpinsky, Alexander Fersman, Yuly Shokalsky, Nikolai Knipovich, Lev Berg, Otto Schmidt, Rudolf Samoylovich, Vladimir Vize, Nikolai Zubov, Pyotr Shirshov, Nikolai Urvantsev, and Yakov Gakkel have all made their valuable contributions to the work of the AARI.
Ivan Sergeevich Sokolov-Mikitov (Иван Серге′евич Соколо′в-Микито′в, May 30 (17) 1882 - February 20, 1975) was a Russian/Soviet writer and journalist who took part in numerous journeys and expreditions (including the famous Otto Schmidt-led trip to the Arctic Circle on icebreaker Georgy Sedov in 1929-1930).
During the 20th century many theories were proposed including the planetesimal theory of Thomas Chamberlin and Forest Moulton (1901), tidal model of Jeans (1917), accretion model of Otto Schmidt (1944), protoplanet theory of William McCrea (1960) and finally capture theory of Michael Woolfson.