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Dr. Gerhard Schmidt, Biochemist
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April 26, 1981
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Dr. Gerhard Schmidt, a research scientist who was a professor of biochemistry at the Tufts University School of Medicine, died Friday at the Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Schmidt, a resident of Brookline, Mass., was 79 years old.
He was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and obtained his medical degree from the University of Frankfurt.
He came to the United States in 1937 and joined the Rockefeller Institute, where he did research on nucleic acids. From 1938 to 1940 he was at Washington University in St. Louis, where he collaborated with Dr. Carl Cori, who was a Nobel Prize winner in medicine and physiology. He joined the Tufts School of Medicine in 1940 as a research fellow and was named a professor in 1950.
Dr. Schmidt was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is survived by his wife, Edith; two sons, Michael Thomas of New York City and Milton James of Newton, Mass; two sisters, Mrs. Renate Bever of Bethesda, Md., and Mrs. Marion Childs of Cambridge, England, and two grandchildren.
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