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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

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

Among astronomers, Walter Baade ranks 82 out of 531Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Walter Baade ranks 50Before 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 25Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Baade ranks 1,079 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Walter Baade ranks 13Before 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).