In Appreciation¶A Lifetime of Connections: Otto Herbert Schmitt, 1913 - 1998
In Appreciation¶A Lifetime of Connections: Otto Herbert Schmitt, 1913 - 1998
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欣赏¶一生的联系：奥托·赫伯特·施密特，1913 - 1998
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2002
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J. Harkness
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抽象的。奥托·H·施密特1913年出生于密苏里州圣路易斯市。年轻时，他表现出对电气工程的热爱，但也追求广泛的其他兴趣。作为华盛顿大学的本科生和研究生，他运用了他的多学科才能，在那里他在三个系工作：物理学、动物学和数学。在他的博士研究中，施密特设计并建造了一种电子设备，以模拟动作电位沿神经纤维的传播。他最著名的发明，现在被称为施密特触发器，源于这项早期研究。施密特在明尼苏达大学度过了他职业生涯的大部分时间，在那里他在生物物理学和生物工程方面进行了开创性的工作。他还在国家和国际层面开展工作，将生物物理学和生物工程建立在健全的机构基础上。他在明尼苏达州的岁月被第二次世界大战打断。在那次冲突期间--以及随后的冷战最初几个月--施密特在纽约的机载仪器实验室进行了与国防相关的研究。在明尼苏达州的职业生涯接近尾声时，施密特创造了仿生学这个术语。他于1998年去世。
Abstract. Otto H. Schmitt was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1913. As a youth, he displayed an affinity for electrical engineering but also pursued a wide range of other interests. He applied his multi-disciplinary talents as an undergraduate and graduate student at Washington University, where he worked in three departments: physics, zoology, and mathematics. For his doctoral research, Schmitt designed and built an electronic device to mimic the propagation of action potentials along nerve fibers. His most famous invention, now called the Schmitt trigger, arose from this early research. Schmitt spent most of his career at the University of Minnesota, where he did pioneering work in biophysics and bioengineering. He also worked at national and international levels to place biophysics and bioengineering on sound institutional footings. His years at Minnesota were interrupted by World War II. During that conflict - and the initial months of the Cold War to follow - Schmitt carried out defense-related research at the Airborne Instruments Laboratory in New York. Toward the end of his career at Minnesota, Schmitt coined the term biomimetics. He died in 1998.