Norman Hodgson Baker, Jr. (1931-2005) was one of the founders of the modern stellar pulsation theory, president of the Variable Star Commission 27 of the International Astronomical Union (1982-1985) and editor of Astronomical Journal. He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1952 and his Ph.D. in 1959 from Cornell, where he worked with Philip Morrison on radiation from particle interactions. After graduating from Cornell, he worked for two years at the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik. He worked at Convair Science Research Laboratory in San Diego, and then at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Astronomy Dept. at Yale, and the Physics Dept. at NYU. In 1965, he joined the faculty at Columbia, and retired in 2002. He died in 2005.
From the guide to the Norman Baker student papers, [ca. 1952-1959], (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library)
