Education and Acclaim
Schmidt received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry in 1960 from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. From 1960 to 1964, he attended the University of Chicago, where he received a Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry and was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Among many research endeavors, his thesis on alkali metal adsorption was supervised by Professor Robert Gomer. In 1965, he completed a postdoctoral year at the University of Chicago.
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