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Walter Baade : a life in astrophysics / Donald E. Osterbrock.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. ; Chichester : Princeton University Press, 2001.Description: 256p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780691049366 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 523.1092 21
LOC classification:
  • QB460.72.B22
Summary: This biography suggests that Walter Baade's greatest contribution to astrophysics was not his revision of Hubble's distance and age scales for the universe, but the discovery of two stellar populations: old and young stars.
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This biography suggests that Walter Baade's greatest contribution to astrophysics was not his revision of Hubble's distance and age scales for the universe, but the discovery of two stellar populations: old and young stars.

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