About Robert Horace Baker
Lived 1883 – 1964 (aged 81). Robert Horace Baker was an American astronomer and university teacher.
Robert Horace Baker (March 29, 1883, in Northampton, Massachusetts – June 23, 1964, in Upland, California) was an American astronomer.
Career Educated at Amherst College, he graduated with an A.B. in 1904 and A.M. the following year. His graduate work in astronomy was done at the University of Pittsburgh where he was an assistant at Allegheny Observatory and where he obtained the Ph.D. degree in 1910.
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American astronomer (1883–1964)
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Robert Horace Baker was born on 29 March 1883 in Northampton.
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Robert Horace Baker died on 23 June 1964 in Upland.
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Robert Horace Baker was an astronomer and university teacher.
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