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Walter Baade
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Walter_Baade
GPTKB entity
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gptkb:person
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gptkb:Bruce_Medal
gptkb:Gold_Medal_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society
gptkbp:birthDate
1893-03-24
gptkbp:birthPlace
gptkb:Schröttinghausen,_Germany
gptkbp:deathDate
1960-06-25
gptkbp:deathPlace
gptkb:Göttingen,_Germany
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gptkb:Karl_Schwarzschild
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gptkb:Mount_Wilson_Observatory
gptkb:Palomar_Observatory
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gptkb:Asteroid_1501_Baade
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gptkb:astronomy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Walter Baade
gptkbp:knownFor
gptkb:Baade's_Window
distinguishing between Population I and Population II stars
co-discovery of asteroid 1036 Ganymed
co-discovery of asteroid 944 Hidalgo
refining the value of the Hubble constant
work on Cepheid variables
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gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Royal_Astronomical_Society
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gptkb:German
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astronomer
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gptkb:Lydia_Baade
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gptkb:Carnegie_Observatories
gptkb:Observatories_of_the_Carnegie_Institution_for_Science
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