Otto schmitt biography

Biography

Otto Herbert Schmitt was a very influential biomedical engineer and biophysicist who coined the term ‘biomimetics’.

Schmitt was a talented inventor right from his high school years. He helped his older brother with electrical instruments and laboratory work in the Zoology Department at Washington University. The young boy’s work impressed several faculty members and he was admitted into the university before he had even completed High School.

In college he displayed great interest and skill in physics, electronics and mathematics and was into research from his undergraduate years.

Otto schmitt biography

Schmitt made his first publication in his first year of college and earned his Bachelor’s degree in Zoology and Physics in 1934. He started graduate research at the same university and earned his PhD with Majors in Physics and Zoology and a Minor in Mathematics.

After that he did a Post-doc from University College in London.

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