About Otto Schmitt
Lived 1913 – 1998 (aged 84). Otto Schmitt was an American biologist, inventor, university teacher, engineer and biophysicist.
Otto Herbert Schmitt (April 6, 1913 – January 6, 1998) was an American inventor, engineer, and biophysicist known for his scientific contributions to biophysics and for establishing the field of biomedical engineering. Schmitt also coined the term biomimetics and invented or co-invented the Schmitt trigger, the differential amplifier, and the chopper-stabilized amplifier.
He was elected in 1953 a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was awarded the John Price Wetherill Medal in 1972.
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Who was Otto Schmitt?
American scientist (1913–1998)
When was Otto Schmitt born?
Otto Schmitt was born on 6 April 1913 in St. Louis.
When did Otto Schmitt die?
Otto Schmitt died on 6 January 1998 in Minneapolis.
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Otto Schmitt was a biologist, inventor, university teacher, engineer and biophysicist.
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Otto Schmitt was American.
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