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Walter Baade

1893 - 1960

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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Baade is the 61st most popular astronomer (up from 75th in 2019), the 631st most popular biography from Germany (up from 850th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Astronomer.

Walter Baade is most famous for his discovery of a supernova in the Andromeda galaxy.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Walter Baade ranks 61 out of 644. Before him are Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Jan Oort, Abu Maʿshar, James Bradley, and Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī. After him are Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Antonie Pannekoek, John Flamsteed, Fred Hoyle, Gerard Kuiper, and Johann Franz Encke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Walter Baade ranks 27. Before him are Chaim Soutine, Harold Lloyd, Harold Urey, Karl Mannheim, Paramahansa Yogananda, and Palmiro Togliatti. After him are Prajadhipok, George Grosz, Damdin Sükhbaatar, Omar Bradley, Jomo Kenyatta, and Lillian Gish. Among people deceased in 1960, Walter Baade ranks 17. Before him are Paula Hitler, Walther Funk, A. L. Kroeber, Fausto Coppi, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. After him are Antonie Pannekoek, Aloysius Stepinac, Igor Kurchatov, Ernst von Dohnányi, J. L. Austin, and Ana Pauker.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Baade ranks 631 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg Wittig (1897), Elsa Einstein (1876), Franz Boas (1858), Ernst Mayr (1904), Wolfgang Petersen (1941), and Kurt Weill (1900). After him are Adolf Galland (1912), Klaus Mann (1906), Helmut Newton (1920), Hans Jonas (1903), Wilhelm Mohnke (1911), and Anneliese Michel (1952).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Walter Baade ranks 10. Before him are Caroline Herschel (1750), Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822), Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), Johann Bayer (1572), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), and Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793). After him are Johann Franz Encke (1791), Max Wolf (1863), Simon Marius (1573), Wilhelm Tempel (1821), Karl Ludwig Harding (1765), and Petrus Apianus (1495).

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