Donald P. Schneider

(1955- ) born at Hastings, lived at Heartwell, Kearney County, and in Lincoln. Astronomer, astrophysicist, educator, co-discoverer in 1987, 1989, 1991, 2000, and 2001 of the most distant quasars ever observed in the universe, and member of an international team that discovered three of the four most distant quasars in 2002, including the most distant quasar known; organized in the early 1990s the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Science Group, author or co-author of nearly 115 papers. Consult Hastings Tribune, November 24, 1989, p. 1 and March 27, 1998, pp. A-1, A-6 and Guinness Book of Records 1994 (Facts On File, 1993) 6 and Lincoln Journal Star, June 7, 2001, p. F-1 and January 30, 2003, p. C-6 and American Men & Women of Science, Vol 6 (2003) 556.

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