Walter Baade: A Life in AstrophysicsPrinceton University Press, 14.10.2001 - 270 Seiten 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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The Preparation Gottingen and Hamburg 18931927 | 1 |
The Path toward the Two Populations Hamburg 19271931 | 25 |
Before the War Mount Wilson 19311938 | 49 |
War and a Great Discovery Mount Wilson 19391947 | 82 |
Young Stars and Old Palomar and Princeton 19481953 | 112 |
Radio Astronomy and the Size of the Universe Palomar and Pasadena 19481958 | 147 |
Telling the Good News America and Europe 19531959 | 177 |
The Finale and After Australia and Gottingen 19591960 | 200 |
ABBREVIATIONS | 229 |
NOTES | 233 |
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