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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 astrono...
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Princeton, N.J. :
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©2001.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Walter Baade : |b a life in astrophysics / |c Donald E. Osterbrock. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Preparation -- 2. The Path toward the Two Populations -- 3. Before the War -- 4. War and a Great Discovery -- 5. Young Stars and Old -- 6. Radio Astronomy and the Size of the Universe -- 7. Telling the Good News -- 8. The Finale and After -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index | |
| 520 | |a 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. Baade was born, educated, and gained his early research experience in Germany. He came to the United States in 1931 as a staff member of Mount Wilson Observatory, which housed the world's largest telescope. There, he pioneered research on supernovae. With the 100-inch telescope, he studied globular clusters and the structure of the Milky Way, every step leading him closer to the population concept he discovered during the wartime years, when the skies of southern California were briefly darkened. Most Mount Wilson astronomers were working on weapons-development crash programs devoted to bringing Baade's native country to its knees, while he, formally an enemy alien in their midst, was confined to Los Angeles County but had almost unlimited use of the most powerful telescope in the world. After his great discovery, Baade continued his research with the new 200-inch telescope at Palomar. Always respected and well liked, he became even more famous among astronomers as they shifted their research to the fields he had opened. Publicity-shy and seemingly unconcerned with publication, however, Baade's celebrity remained largely within the field. This accomplished biography at last introduces Baade--and his important work--to a wider public, including the newest generation of skywatchers. | ||
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| 653 | |a Agfa photographic company. | ||
| 653 | |a Allegheny Observatory. | ||
| 653 | |a Astronomical Journal. | ||
| 653 | |a Baade Telescope. | ||
| 653 | |a Baade, Katherine (sister). | ||
| 653 | |a Bergedorf. | ||
| 653 | |a Biermann, Ludwig. | ||
| 653 | |a Boyden Station. | ||
| 653 | |a Case Institute of Technology. | ||
| 653 | |a Comet Baade. | ||
| 653 | |a Einstein, Albert. | ||
| 653 | |a Fermi, Enrico. | ||
| 653 | |a Fornax system. | ||
| 653 | |a Fricke, Walter. | ||
| 653 | |a Ganymede. | ||
| 653 | |a Gaustad, John. | ||
| 653 | |a Göttingen Observatory. | ||
| 653 | |a Hale telescope. | ||
| 653 | |a Hamburg Observatory. | ||
| 653 | |a Harvard College Observatory. | ||
| 653 | |a Hitler, Adolf. | ||
| 653 | |a Hoyle, Fred. | ||
| 653 | |a Hubble constant. | ||
| 653 | |a Hund, Friedrich. | ||
| 653 | |a Icarus. | ||
| 653 | |a Institute for Advanced Study. | ||
| 653 | |a Institute for Experimental Aerodynamics. | ||
| 653 | |a Jansky, Karl. | ||
| 653 | |a Jena University. | ||
| 653 | |a Johnson, Harold L. | ||
| 653 | |a Johnson, Josef. | ||
| 653 | |a Kienle, Hans. | ||
| 653 | |a Klein, Felix. | ||
| 653 | |a Kuiper, Gerard P. | ||
| 653 | |a Laporte, Otto. | ||
| 653 | |a Leiden Observatory. | ||
| 653 | |a Lick Observatory. | ||
| 653 | |a Lund University. | ||
| 653 | |a Mason, Max. | ||
| 653 | |a Minkowski, Hermann. | ||
| 653 | |a Nazi party. | ||
| 653 | |a Orion nebula. | ||
| 653 | |a Pulkovo Observatory. | ||
| 653 | |a Ross lens. | ||
| 653 | |a Schorr, Richard. | ||
| 653 | |a Scientific American. | ||
| 653 | |a cosmology. | ||
| 653 | |a eclipsing binaries. | ||
| 653 | |a globular clusters. | ||
| 653 | |a interstellar extinction. | ||
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