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Walter baade biography
Walter Baade
German astronomer (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.
Early life and education
Baade was born the son of a teacher in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He finished school in 1912. He then studied maths, physics and astronomy at the universities of Münster and Göttingen.
He received his PhD in 1919.[1]
Career
Baade worked at Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf from 1919 to 1931.[1] In 1920 he discovered 944 Hidalgo, the first of a class of minor planets now called Centaurs which cross the orbits of giant planets.
From 1931 to 1958, he worked at Mount Wilson Observatory[2]
In 1937, the University of Hamburg wanted Baade as successor of Richard Schorr for the Hamburg Observatory, but he refused.[3]
At Mount Wilson Observatory, during World War II, he took advantage of wartime blackout conditions (which redu