Ralph Belknap Baldwin

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Physics

#8258

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#10429

Historical Rank

#1909

USA Rank

Astronomy

#1134

World Rank

#1859

Historical Rank

#427

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According to Wikipedia, Ralph Belknap Baldwin was an American planetary scientist known for his work on lunar craters, beginning in the late 1940s. His book, The Face of the Moon made the case for the impact nature of lunar craters. He published The Measure of the Moon in 1963.

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Ralph Belknap Baldwin's Published Works

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The Measure of the Moon (1963) (282)
The face of the moon (1949) (172)
Was There a (1974) (71)
On the history of lunar impact cratering: The absolute time scale and the origin of planetesimals☆ (1971) (70)
Was there a “terminal lunar cataclysm” 3.9–4.0×109 years ago? (1974) (47)
Relative and absolute ages of individual craters and the rate of infalls on the moon in the post-imbrium period (1985) (45)
Lunar mascons: another interpretafton. (1968) (35)
The question of isostasy on the moon. (1970) (33)
The tsunami model of the origin of ring structures concentric with large lunar craters (1972) (32)
Mars: An Estimate of the Age of Its Surface (1965) (30)
The unity of the Canterbury tales (1955) (29)
On the relative and absolute ages of seven lunar front face basins (1987) (27)
The crater diameter-depth relationship from Ranger VII photographs (1965) (27)
Absolute ages of the lunar maria and large craters: II. The viscosity of the moon's outer layers (1970) (26)
On the relative and absolute ages of seven lunar front face basins: I. From Viscosity Arguments (1987) (25)
Absolute ages of the lunar maria and large craters (1969) (23)
Was there ever a Terminal Lunar Cataclysm?: With lunar viscosity arguments (2006) (22)
Rille pattern in the lunar crater Humboldt (1968) (21)
Summary of Arguments for a Hot Moon (1970) (19)
Ancient Giant Craters and the Age of the Lunar Surface (1969) (19)
A NEW METHOD OF DETERMINING THE DEPTH OF THE LAVA IN LUNAR MARIA (1970) (18)
Tektites: Size estimates of their source craters and implications for their origin (1981) (17)
A fundamental survey of the moon (1965) (16)
A determination of the elastic limit of the outer layer of the moon (1968) (16)
Ranger VIII and Gravity Scaling of Lunar Craters. (1967) (14)
Historical review of a long-overlooked paper by R. A. Daly concerning the origin and early history of the Moon (1992) (14)
The Deadly Fuze: Secret Weapon of World War II. (1981) (11)
Coon mountain controversies: Meteor Crater and the Development of Impact Theory by William Graves Hoyt. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1987. 443 pp., 14 chapters, 49 illustrations and 1334 references. $40.00 (1988) (10)
Rima Goclenius II (1971) (10)
On the Origin of the Planetesimals that Produced the Multi-ring Basins (1980) (10)
On the tsunami theory of the origin of multi-ring basins. (1980) (10)
On the Accretion of the Earth and Moon. Mass Distribution of Planetisimals Forming Pre-Mare Craters (1974) (9)
On the origin of the Moon (1966) (9)
On the origin of the mare basins (1974) (8)
On the current rate of formation of impact craters of varying sizes on the Earth and Moon (1987) (7)
A Lunar Contour Map (1961) (7)
Craters on the Moon (1924) (6)
The eclipsing variable TT Herculis (1939) (4)
Contributions Toward a Physical Model of γ Cassiopeiae (1940) (4)
The Recent Shell Spectrum of γ Cassiopeiae. (1941) (3)
The Shell Spectrum of HR 8731 IN 1940, with an Intercomparison of the Spectra of Several Shells. (1943) (3)
Comments on the paper by C. L. Goudas “Development of the lunar topography into spherical harmonics” (1964) (3)
Comments on letter by G. Steinberg, ‘Inapplicability of Baldwin's relation for determining the causes of formation of lunar craters’ (1968) (2)
Embolism and Secondary Thrombosis of the Bifurcation of the Aorta (1954) (2)
Ranger VIII and Gravity Scaling of Lunar Craters (1967) (2)
The 1914 Shell Spectrum of ζ Tauri. (1941) (2)
Comments on paper by Dean R. Chapman, ‘Australasian tektite geographic pattern, crater and ray of origin, and theory of tektite events’ (1972) (1)
THE NATURE OF THE LUNAR SURFACE AND MAJOR STRUCTURAL FEATURES (1962) (1)
A DETERMINATION OF THE ABSOLUTE AGES OF SEVEN FRONT FACE LUNAR BASINS (1987) (1)
The Spectrum of γ Cassiopeiae in the Photographic Region (1938) (1)
Geology of the Solar System: Mantles of the Earth and Terrestrial Planets . A NATO Advanced Study Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, March-April 1966. S. K. Runcorn, Ed. Interscience (Wiley). New York. 1967. xii + 584 pp., illus. $25. (1968) (0)
Response : Ranger VIII and Gravity Scaling of Lunar Craters (1968) (0)
THE ORIGIN OF LUNAR FEATURES (1965) (0)
Remarks on Nova Cygni (1939) (0)
Note on the Origin of Emission in γ Cassiopeiae. (1939) (0)
The collapse of the Meidum Pyramid and its effect on the reign of Senefru (2003) (0)
The forces in the system of epsilon Aurigae (1938) (0)
A possible giant astrobleme on the north shore of Canada at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (1989) (0)
Carbon stars in zones -4 to +22 Dearborn Survey of faint red stars . (1940) (0)
Terrestrial and lunar accretion - Mass distribution of planetesimals which formed pre-mare craters (1975) (0)
A suggested physical model of Gamma Cassiopeiae (1946) (0)
The Moon—A Fundamental Survey (1966) (0)
The Opacity and Continuous Emission of the Atmosphere of γ Cassiopeiae. (1941) (0)
The Movements of Near Stars. (1974) (0)
The 1940 shell spectrum of HR 8731 (HD 217050) (1946) (0)
Two peculiar red stars (1940) (0)
The Barringer Medal Address Presented 2000 August 28, Chicago, United States of America. Pulling back the curtain (2000) (0)
Comments on G. S. Steinberg's Paper "On the Origin of the Large Lunar Craters and Circular Maria" (1970) (0)
Mantles of the Earth and Terrestrial Planets. A NATO Advanced Study Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, March-April 1966. S. K. Runcorn, Ed. Interscience (Wiley). New York. 1967. xii + 584 pp., illus. $25 (1968) (0)

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