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Fred Schmidt (1915-1991) received the B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Michigan in 1937. After two years with AT&T, he returned to graduate study and obtained the M.A. degree in Physics from the University of Buffalo in 1940, and the Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California-Berkeley in 1945. While at Berkeley, Schmidt worked on the 37 and 60 inch cyclotrons. From 1941 to mid-1945 he worked on the Manhattan Project in Berkeley, Oak Ridge (Tennessee), and Los Alamos (New Mexico). In 1945, he returned to Berkeley to assist in building the first synchrocyclotron. In 1946, Schmidt became a Professor of Physics at the University of Washington, where he worked in the Nuclear Physics Laboratory. Schmidt was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1956-1957), a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship (1963-1964), and was a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His research interests were in experimental nuclear physics and elementary particle physics. Schmidt was also very interested in energy policy, and was an outspoken advocate of nuclear power. In 1976, he co-authored "The Energy Controversy: The Fight Over Nuclear Power", with David Bodansky. He remained a member of teh faculty of the University of Washington Physics Department until his death.