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Walter Baade

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Walter Baade

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Also known as Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade

German astronomer (1893–1960)

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Walter Baade (1893–1960) was a German astronomer and astrophysicist. He was educated at the University of Göttingen and the University of Münster. His professional affiliations included the Mount Wilson Observatory, Palomar Observatory, and the University of Göttingen. Baade was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony.

He received the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, and the Bruce Medal. Among his doctoral students were Halton Arp and Allan Sandage. Baade spoke English and German. He died in Göttingen.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1881
Died
1922
Works
2

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  • Experimentelle und kritische beiträge zur frage nach den sekundären wirkungen des unterrichts, insbesondere auf die empfänglichkeit des schülers ...
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5 total works indexed

  1. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

    · 1983 · cited 31,548x

  2. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,797x

  3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,989x

  4. The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

    · 2011 · cited 13,464x

  5. A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity

    · 1943 · cited 13,226x

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Encyclopedic overview

Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 – June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959.

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