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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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Biography. Fritz Zwicky was born in Varna, Bulgaria, to a Swiss father (citizenship in Mollis, Glarus [ 5 ]) and Czech mother. His father, Fridolin (b. 1868), was a prominent industrialist in the Bulgarian city and also served as Norwegian consul in Varna (1908–1933). [ 6 ] Fridolin Zwicky designed and built his family's Zwicky House in Varna.
“A fitting biography of one of the most brilliant, acerbic, and under-appreciated astrophysicists of the twentieth century. John Johnson has delved deeply into a rich and eventful life, and produced a rollicking account of how Fritz Zwicky split his time between picking fights with his colleagues and discovering amazing things about our universe.”—Sean Carroll, author of The Big ...
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Jul 7, 2019 · His ‘missing mass’ is now known as ‘dark matter’ – and proving its existence and determining its properties is one of the grail-quests of modern physics.”. Zwicky and Baade also ...
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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“A fitting biography of one of the most brilliant, acerbic, and under-appreciated astrophysicists of the twentieth century. John Johnson has delved deeply into a rich and eventful life, and produced a rollicking account of how Fritz Zwicky split his time between picking fights with his colleagues and discovering amazing things about our universe.”—Sean Carroll, author of The Big ...
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In this interview, conducted by historian R. Cargill Hall on May 17, 1971, Cal Tech astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky recounts the events leading up to his 1946 artificial meteor experiment and its aftermath. His concept of firing a projectile into the Moon at high velocity in an attempt to liberate water was finally achieved in July 1999 when NASA's ...
