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Walter Baade ( Schröttinghausen, 24 marzo 1893 – Gottinga, 25 giugno 1960) è stato un astronomo tedesco, che emigrò negli Stati Uniti d'America nel 1931 .
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 – June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959.
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 nov 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.
Although less well known outside the field than Edwin Hubble,Walter Baade was arguably the most influentialobservational astronomer of the twentieth century. Wr... Front Matter
German–American astronomer Walter Baade is remembered for three major contributions to observational, extragalactic astronomy: the recognition of two basic population types of stars, the characterization (with Fritz Zwicky) of supernovae as a distinct class of event with energy derived from the collapse of a normal star to a neutron star, and ...
Walter Baade was born one hundred and one years ago; he died in 1960, a third of a century ago. In my opinion he was the second most important observational astronomer of this century, after Edwin Hubble, who changed our place in the universe and our perception of it.
