Fritz Zwicky

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Fritz Zwicky was a Swiss astronomer and physicist best known for pioneering work on dark matter, supernovae, and galaxy clusters, profoundly shaping modern astrophysics.

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instanceOf astronomer
astrophysicist
human
physicist
awardReceived Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Janssen Medal
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
surface form: Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
coAuthor Walter Baade
coinedTerm supernova
countryOfBirth Bulgaria
countryOfCitizenship Switzerland
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1898-02-14
dateOfDeath 1974-02-08
developed morphological analysis method
discovered evidence for missing mass in the Coma cluster
doctoralThesisTopic ionic crystals
educatedAt ETH Zurich
employer California Institute of Technology
familyName Fritz Zwicky self-linksurface differs
surface form: Zwicky
fieldOfWork astronomy
astrophysics
physics
givenName Fritz
hasAcademicAdvisor Peter Debye
hasWikipediaPage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Zwicky
influenced dark matter research
modern cosmology
knownFor coining the term supernova
morphological method in science
pioneering evidence for dark matter
proposing neutron stars
work on galaxy clusters
languageSpoken English
German
memberOf American Astronomical Society
Swiss Academy of Sciences
notableWork Zwicky catalog of galaxies
dark matter in galaxy clusters
morphological analysis
neutron star hypothesis
theory of supernovae
placeOfBirth Varna
placeOfDeath Pasadena
surface form: Pasadena, California
proposed existence of neutron stars
gravitational lensing by galaxies
residence Switzerland
United States of America
sexOrGender male
workLocation Pasadena
surface form: Pasadena, California

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