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Hellmut Schmid

Swiss university teacher (1914-1998)

PersonDied aged 83humanQ121784

Born: September 12, 1914
, September 14, 1914
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Died: April 27, 1998
Birthplace: Dresden
Place of death: Spokane
Citizenship: Switzerland
Occupation: university teacher
, surveyor
, geodesist
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Education: TU Dresden
Employer: ETH Zurich

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Hellmut H. Schmid was a Swiss professor of geodesy and photogrammetry. He taught at ETH Zürich (Switzerland). In the 1950s, he worked on space exploration in the United States. Between 1968 and 1974, he promoted the first intercontinental network of satellite geodesy.

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Sex or gender: male
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Given name: Hellmut
Family name: Schmid
Member of: Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Residence: Germany

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