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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Roland Walter Schmitt is a physicist, business executive and was the sixteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.He was born on July 24, 1923 in Seguin, Texas to Walter L. Schmitt and Myrtle F. (Caldwell) Schmitt. On June 2, 1951 he married Alice V. Calhoun (b. February 12, 1930) and they had two sons: Lorenz (b. 1952) and Brian (b. 1954). Alice died on July 17, 1956. He later married Claire F. Kunz (b. 1928) on September 19, 1957; they had two children: Alice (b. 1958) and Henry (b. 1961).He graduated from the University of Texas with a B.S. in physics and a B.A. in mathematics, both in 1947 and a master’s degree in physics in 1948. He received a P.h.D. in physics from Rice University in 1951.