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Fritz Zwicky (/ ˈ t s v ɪ k i /; 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.
Apr 18, 2023 · The Father of Dark Matter Still Gets No Respect. Little-acknowledged Fritz Zwicky got there first on dark matter, neutron stars, and supernovas. By Richard Panek. Dec 30, 2008 10:00 PMApr 18, 2023 11:36 AM.
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Jul 7, 2019 · Our modern understanding of dark matter begins in the early 1930s with Swiss physicist Fritz Zwicky, called by Tom Ritchey, writing for the Swedish Morphological Society, “one of the broadest and...
Apr 17, 2024 · 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).
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ASTROPHYSICS. Zwicky: new lens on an elusive astrophysicist. Jaco de Swart enjoys a biography of the scientist who pioneered findings on dark matter and supernovae.
Sep 3, 2019 · Zwicky is celebrated mainly as the ‘father of dark matter’. In the early 1930s, while studying Hubble’s observations of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, he noted an anomaly. According to the...
Fritz Zwicky was the first to recognize that in rich clusters of galaxies, a large portion of the matter is not visible. In his pioneering work, which he published as early as 1933 in Helvetica Physica Acta he estimated the total mass of the COMA cluster of galaxies from the motions of the galaxies within that cluster.
