Walter Baade

Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24 1893 - June 25 1960) was a German astronomer who emigrated to the USA in 1931.

Honors

Awards

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• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1954)
• Bruce Medal (1955)
• Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society (1958)

Named after him

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• Asteroid 1501 Baade
• Baade crater on the Moon
• A vallis (valley) on the Moon
• One of the two Magellan telescopes
• Baade's Window, an area relatively free of dust near the Galactic Center in Sagittarius