(Wilhelm Heinrich) Walter Baade - Honors, Books

Astronomer, born in Schröttinghausen, NW Germany. He studied at Münster and Göttingen, and worked at the Hamburg Observatory (1919–31). He moved to the USA in 1931, and spent the rest of his career at the Mt Wilson (1931–58) and Palomar (1948–58) Observatories. His work gave new estimates for the age and size of the universe.

Asteroids discovered: 10

930 Westphalia	March 10, 1920
934 Thüringia	August 15, 1920
944 Hidalgo	October 31, 1920
966 Muschi	November 9, 1921
967 Helionape	November 9, 1921
1036 Ganymed	October 23, 1924
1103 Sequoia	November 9, 1928
1566 Icarus	June 27, 1949
5656 Oldfield	October 8, 1920
(7448) 1948 AA	January 14, 1948

Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 - June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who emigrated to the USA in 1931.

Honors

Awards

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1954) Bruce Medal (1955) Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society (1958)

Named after him

Asteroid 1501 Baade Baade crater on the Moon A vallis (valley) on the Moon One of the two Magellan telescopes Baade's Window, an area relatively free of dust near the Galactic Center in Sagittarius

Books

Walter Baade: A Life in Astrophysics, Donald E.