From 1939 to 1942, Schmidt became a vice-president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, where he organized the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics (he was its director until 1949).
1939年到1942年，施密特成为苏联科学院副院长，在那里，他筹建了理论地球物理研究所（直至1949年一直由他担任所长）。