Thursday, 24 March 2016

Astrognome Scrapbook Walter Baade

Walter Baade 1893-1960


Walter Baade was born on March 24th 1893 a German astronomer who spent most of his life in America.



He established that there had been a serious error in the Cepheid distance scale and that the universe was twice as large as had been thought.

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