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Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 – June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959.
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (Preußisch Oldendorf, 24 de março de 1893 — Göttingen, 25 de junho de 1960) foi um astrônomo e astrofísico alemão. Participou da 11ª Conferência de Solvay, em 1958.
Learn about Walter Baade, a German-born astronomer who worked at Mt. Wilson and Palomar observatories. He discovered supernovae, neutron stars, Cepheid variables, and the Andromeda Galaxy.
1 de nov. de 2002 · In the autumn of 1943, Walter Baade, at the Mount Wilson Observatory, managed to resolve into individual stars the inner amorphous region of the Andromeda galaxy and two of its companion galaxies. The brightest stars were yellow giants; he found no highly luminous blue or red stars.
14 de out. de 2001 · Walter Baade: A Life in Astrophysics. Although less well known outside the field than Edwin Hubble, Walter Baade was arguably the most influential observational astronomer of the twentieth century. Written by a fellow astronomer deeply familiar with Baade and his work, this is the first biography of this major figure in American ...
- October 14, 2001
A comprehensive biography of Walter Baade, a German-American astronomer who made major contributions to extragalactic astronomy, stellar populations, and supernovae. Learn about his life, education, research, collaborations, and legacy in this reference work entry.
Walter Baade was one of the great astronomers of the twentieth century. He opened up the fields of study of stellar and galactic evolution that have made up so much of astronomy in our time, but which were sterile and unproductive before his discovery of the two stellar populations, young stars and old.
