Otto H. Schmitt

Thinkers1913 to 1998Biophysicist and engineer

Works

  • Some Interesting and Useful Biomimetic Transforms, Third International Biophysics Congress, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969

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Known for

A biophysicist and engineer who helped found biomedical engineering and invented the Schmitt trigger. He coined the word biomimetics for transferring ideas from biology into technology; this 1969 paper used it in its title.

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