Walter Baade
A Life in Astrophysics.
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Word Count
71,000 words, Guess
Page Count
284 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewalterbaadelifei00oste
- ISBN-10069104936X
- ISBN-139780691049366
- Goodreads257071
- Library of Congress Control Number2001021129
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number45806463
- Better World Books9780691049366
- Open LibraryOL7757209M
Classifications
- LCCQB460.72.B22O77 2001
- LCCQB460.72.B22 O77 2001
Description
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
Walter Baade was one of the great astronomers of the twentieth century.
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Other Editions
- Walter Baade: A Life in Astrophysics.
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