Walter Baade: A Life in AstrophysicsPrinceton University Press, 14 oct. 2001 - 270 pages 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 astronomy. In it, Donald Osterbrock suggests that Baade's greatest contribution to astrophysics was not, as is often contended, his revision of Hubble's distance and age scales for the universe. Rather, it was his discovery of two distinct stellar populations: old and young stars. This discovery opened wide the previously marginal fields of stellar and galactic evolution--research areas that would be among the most fertile and exciting in all of astrophysics for decades to come. |
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Göttingen and Hamburg 18931927 | 1 |
Hamburg 19271931 | 25 |
Mount Wilson 19311938 | 49 |
Mount Wilson 19391947 | 82 |
Palomar and Princeton 19481953 | 112 |
America and Europe 19531959 | 177 |
Australia and Göttingen 19591960 | 200 |
ABBREVIATIONS | 229 |
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