Walter Baade: A Life in Astrophysics

by Donald E. Osterbrock and Walter Baade

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069104936X
• ISBN13: 9780691049366
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"