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Fritz Zwicky (born February 14, 1898, Varna, Bulgaria—died February 8, 1974, Pasadena, California, U.S.) was a Swiss astronomer and physicist who made valuable contributions to the theory and understanding of supernovas (stars that for a short time are far brighter than normal). Zwicky received a doctorate in physics (1922) from the Swiss ...
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Fritz Zwicky (/ ˈ t s v ɪ k i /; [1] German:; February 14, 1898 – February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer.He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy. [2]
Sep 3, 2019 · Fritz Zwicky advanced astronomy over much of the twentieth century, pioneering findings on constituents of the cosmos from supernovae and neutron stars to dark matter and compact galaxies. He ...
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The Zwickys tells the story of a strong-willed woman, Kayden Zwicky, who after finding out her husband has been murdered for mysterious reasons, sets out on ...
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Fritz Zwicky was the son of Fridolin Zwicky (1868-1944), a prominent industrialist in Varna who was born in Switzerland, and Franziska Vrček (1871-1927) who was a Czech born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Fritz was the eldest of his parents' three children, having a younger brother Rudolf Zwicky (1900-1952) and sister Leonie (1905-1980).
Zwicky. , John Johnson, Jr., brings this tempestuous maverick to life. Zwicky not only made groundbreaking contributions to science and engineering; he rose to fame as one of the most imaginative science popularizers of his day. Yet he became a pariah in the scientific community, denouncing his enemies, real and imagined, as “spherical ...
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