Jaan Kross
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Jaan Kross was an Estonian writer. He won the 1995 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Jaan Kross in 1938
Kross and German translator Cornelius Hasselblatt in Hamburg, October 1985
Jaan Kross in 2004
Bernhard Schmidt
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Bernhard Woldemar Schmidt was an Estonian optician. In 1930 he invented the Schmidt telescope, which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making possible for the first time the construction of very large, wide-angled reflective cameras of short exposure time for astronomical research.
Schmidt Museum at Hamburg Observatory, Bergedorf
The 2m Schmidt Camera (the Alfred-Jensch Telescope at Karl Schwarzschild Observatory in Tautenburg, Germany).