1893 - 1960
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
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Baade has received more than 104,237 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Walter Baade is the 82nd most popular astronomer (down from 76th in 2019), the 1,079th most popular biography from Germany (down from 945th in 2019) and the 13th 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, Walter Baade ranks 82 out of 531. Before him are Stephen Gray, Petrus Plancius, Arthur B. McDonald, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, Karl Ludwig Harding, and Lewis A. Swift. After him are Wilhelm Tempel, Edward Emerson Barnard, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Abu Maʿshar, Eric Walter Elst, and Petrus Apianus.
1666 - 1736
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 76
1552 - 1622
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 77
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 78
810 - 860
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 79
1765 - 1834
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 80
1820 - 1913
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 81
1893 - 1960
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 82
1821 - 1889
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 83
1857 - 1923
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 84
1598 - 1671
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 85
787 - 886
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 86
1936 - 2022
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 87
1495 - 1552
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 88
Among people born in 1893, Walter Baade ranks 50. Before him are Emmy Göring, Hermann Balck, Ana Pauker, Ernst Toller, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Walter Christaller. After him are Erwin Piscator, Raymond Loewy, Allen Dulles, Clemens Krauss, Roy O. Disney, and Wallace Fard Muhammad. Among people deceased in 1960, Walter Baade ranks 25. Before him are Victor Sjöström, Ana Pauker, Ernst von Dohnányi, Héctor Castro, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, and John D. Rockefeller Jr.. After him are Felix Kersten, Ethel Voynich, Friedrich Adler, Ida Rubinstein, Henri Guisan, and Hugo Alfvén.
1893 - 1973
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 44
1893 - 1982
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 45
1893 - 1960
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 46
1893 - 1939
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 47
1893 - 1953
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 48
1893 - 1969
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 49
1893 - 1960
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 50
1893 - 1966
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 51
1893 - 1986
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 52
1893 - 1969
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 53
1893 - 1954
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 54
1893 - 1971
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 55
1893 - 1934
HPI: 59.26
Rank: 56
1879 - 1960
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 19
1893 - 1960
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 20
1877 - 1960
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 21
1904 - 1960
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 22
1878 - 1960
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 23
1874 - 1960
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 24
1893 - 1960
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 25
1898 - 1960
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 26
1864 - 1960
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 27
1879 - 1960
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 28
1883 - 1960
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 29
1874 - 1960
HPI: 59.70
Rank: 30
1872 - 1960
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 31
Among people born in Germany, Walter Baade ranks 1,079 out of 6,142. Before him are Adam Elsheimer (1578), Lale Andersen (1905), Karl Bühler (1879), Wilhelm Gustloff (1895), Carl Reinecke (1824), and Johann Deisenhofer (1943). After him are Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Wilhelm Tempel (1821), Anna of Saxony (1544), Peter Sloterdijk (1947), John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1604), and Carsten Niebuhr (1733).
1578 - 1610
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 1,073
1905 - 1972
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 1,074
1879 - 1963
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 1,075
1895 - 1936
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 1,076
1824 - 1910
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 1,077
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 1,078
1893 - 1960
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 1,079
1929 - 2022
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 1,080
1821 - 1889
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 1,081
1544 - 1577
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 1,082
1947 - Present
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 1,083
1604 - 1679
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 1,084
1733 - 1815
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 1,085
Among astronomers born in Germany, Walter Baade ranks 13. Before him are Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Simon Marius (1573), Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822), Max Wolf (1863), and Karl Ludwig Harding (1765). After him are Wilhelm Tempel (1821), Petrus Apianus (1495), David Fabricius (1564), Johann Elert Bode (1747), Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892), and Reinhard Genzel (1952).
1592 - 1635
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 7
1573 - 1625
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 8
1793 - 1864
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 9
1822 - 1875
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 10
1863 - 1932
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 11
1765 - 1834
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 12
1893 - 1960
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 13
1821 - 1889
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 14
1495 - 1552
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 15
1564 - 1617
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 16
1747 - 1826
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 17
1892 - 1979
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 18
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 19