ZWICKY, FRITZ

tsvĭkˈē, 1898–1974, Swiss-American astrophysicist, b. Bulgaria, educated at Zürich. Associated with the California Institute of Technology after his arrival in the United States in 1925, he became professor of astrophysics in 1942 and emeritus professor in 1972. He discovered more than 120 supernovas and with Rudolf Minkowski and Walter Baade he developed several models to explain their occurrence. Decades before the observational discovery of neutron stars, Zwicky suggested that the Crab Nebula in Taurus originated in a supernova. He is also known for his study of jet propulsion, cosmic rays, crystals, and slow electrons and ions in gases.

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books on: Zwicky Fritz  - 47 results

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A Dictionary of Astronomy
Book by Ian Ridpath; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Astronomy--Dictionaries
...name for * relative sunspot number. Zwicky Catalogue Popular name for the Catalogue...six volumes in 1961-8 by F. *Zwicky and his collaborators. It contains...compact, or open is still used. Zwicky, Fritz 1898-1974 Swiss astronomer, born...
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The Nazi Rocketeers: Dreams of Space and Crimes of War
Book by Dennis Piszkiewicz; Praeger Publishers, 1995
Subjects: Rocketry--Biography, Von Braun, Wernher--1912-1977, War Crimes, World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities, World War, 1939-1945--Technology
...Thea, 5 , 30 von Horstig, Ritter, 20 von Opel, Fritz, 11 , 51 von Paulus, Friedrich, 87 von Ribbentrop...Ltd., 105 , 120 Zinnowitz, 49 , 146 , 150 , 187 Zwicky, Fritz, 236 Zyklon B, 75 . See also Poison gas About the Author...
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Thread of the Silkworm
Book by Iris Chang; Basic Books, 1995
Subjects: Aeronautical Engineers--China--Biography, Aeronautical Engineers--United States--Biography, Anti-Communist Movements--United States--History, Astronautics--China--History, Rocketry--China--Biography, Tsien, Hsue Shen
...Vander Velde, Wallace, 175 -76 van Dyke, Milton, 257 Van Opel, Fritz, 71 Viorst, Milton, 223 von Braun, Wernher, 112 -13 WAC Corporal...Fenggan, 219 , 220 , 261 Zhu Kezhen, 37 Zisch, William, 165 , 235 Zwicky, Fritz, 86 , 195
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Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
Book by John Archibald Wheeler; Norton, 1998
Subjects: Astronomy--History, Physicists--United States--Biography, Physics--History, Wheeler, John Archibald--1911-
...315 , 330 Zia Company, 196 zinc sulphide, 94 zirconium (fission product), 60 -61 Zurek, Wojciech, 157 , 330 Zwicky, Fritz, 293 Zworykin, Katusha, 154 Zworykin, Vladimir, 154
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Genesis of the Big Bang
Book by Ralph A. Alpher, Robert Herman; Oxford University Press, 2001
...Robert, 25 , 108 109, 111 , 114 , 118 , 120 Woolf, Nicholas, 115 116 World War II, 70 72, 75 Wright, Thomas, 43 Zeldovich, Yakov, 58 , 61 , 71 , 115 zero time, 88 , 131 , 135 , 140 141, 155 Zeta Ophiuchi, 118 Zwicky, Fritz, 15 , 91
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Integral Morphological C-k Design Approach for Multidisciplinary Building Design
Journal article by Wim Zeiler, Perica Savanovic; Architectural Engineering and Design Management, Vol. 5, 2009
Subjects: Architecture, Construction costs, Design specifications, Designers, Engineering research, Problems, Studies, Workshops
...is called a morphological chart (Zwicky and Wilson, 1967). The design...Morphological overviews were developed by Fritz Zwicky in 1947 (Norris, 1963) as a tool...problem complexes (Ritchey, 2006). Zwicky (1948) gives a clear description...
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Jesse L. Greenstein
Journal article by Virginia Trimble; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 149, 2005
Subjects: Astronomers, Greenstein, Jesse L (1909-2002), Personal profiles
...Greenstein accepted an appointment as the first professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology. (Fritz Zwicky had been there since the 1920s, but with a physics chair.) The responsibilities included creating a graduate school...


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The Light of Life Still Eludes Us
Magazine article by Judith Braffman-Miller; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 138, May 2010
Subjects: Dark energy--Research, Dark matter (Astronomy)--Research, Dark matter--Research
...exactly who and what he is. In 1933, Fritz Zwicky, a courageous and visionary scientist...great Coma Cluster of galaxies, Zwicky chanced upon a dramatic difference...traveling within the Coma Cluster, Zwicky determined its total mass. He then...
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Dark and Darker
Magazine article by Neil Degrasse Tyson; Natural History, Vol. 112, November 2003
Subjects: Cosmology, Dark matter, Gravity
...contentious Swiss-American astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky discovered the first sign that there...Where "was the "missing mass"? Zwicky had been studying the Coma cluster...motion of a few dozen galaxies, Zwicky discovered that their average speed...
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Dark Matter
Magazine article by Donald Goldsmith; Natural History, Vol. 116, September 2007
Subjects: Astronomers, Astronomy, Atoms & subatomic particles, Construction contracts, Dark matter, Physicists, Stars & galaxies, Universe
...forces on the matter we can see. Fritz Zwicky, the prickly Bulgarian-Swiss...galaxies within a cluster of galaxies, Zwicky could deduce the mass of the cluster...essentially the same conclusion as Zwicky had: each galaxy includes enormous...
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Not Seeing Is Believing
Magazine article by Charles Liu; Natural History, Vol. 116, February 2007
Subjects: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Dark matter, Stars & galaxies
...the 1930s the American astronomer Fritz Zwicky measured the speeds of galaxies in...gravity. Like all good scientists, Zwicky had to choose: new theory, revised...theory with alternate explanation? Zwicky chose door number three-and came...
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Mining for Dark Matter
Magazine article by Brooke Borel; Popular Science, Vol. 278, January 2011
Subjects: Astronomy, Copper, Dark matter, Mining, Physicists, Titanium
...the rules of Newtonian physics. The name comes from Fritz Zwicky, a Swiss astronomer who in 1933 used two well-established...Newtonian equation to add up, there had to be more mass. Zwicky dubbed this missing bulk "dark matter." Zwickys work...
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The Heart of the Matter; Reportage
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 23, 2011
...Thirties, no one did, but then in 1933 Fritz Zwicky, a Swiss astronomer working at the...be viable. The conundrum posed by Zwicky had to do with the mass of galaxies...many stars it contains). But what Zwicky discovered was that something didnt...


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encyclopedia articles on: Zwicky Fritz  - 3 results

 
 
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Zwicky, Fritz
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ZWICKY, FRITZ tsvik e, 1898 1974, Swiss-American astrophysicist, b. Bulgaria...occurrence. Decades before the observational discovery of neutron stars , Zwicky suggested that the Crab Nebula in Taurus originated in a supernova. He...
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Baade, Walter
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...necessary to double the cosmic-distance scale, i.e., the distances between external galaxies and the Milky Way . With Fritz Zwicky and Rudolf Minkowski he distinguished two types of supernova based on their spectra and on their maximum absolute magnitudes...
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Supernova
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...earth from such an event (see neutrino astronomy ). Theoretical Models of Supernovas Type I Supernovas In the 1930s Fritz Zwicky, Walter Baade, and Rudolph Minkowski developed several models of supernova events. In a star about to become a Type...


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