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    Fritz Zwicky (/ˈtsvɪki/; German: [ˈtsvɪki]; February 14, 1898 – February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California...
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    Ramjet (section Fritz Zwicky)
    types of aircraft during the Falklands War. Eminent Swiss astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky was research director at Aerojet and holds many patents in jet propulsion...
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    constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy was first identified by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in a 1930s photographic survey of galaxies. Studies at the Palomar Observatory...
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    as a "turtleback crater floor". The crater is named after astronomer Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974), a professor at Caltech, Pasadena and pioneer in the study...
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  • simulation do not function well or at all. Fritz Zwicky developed this approach to seemingly non-reducible complexity (Zwicky, 1966, 1969). Using the technique...
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  • (or CGCG) was compiled by Fritz Zwicky in 1961–68. It contains 29,418 galaxies and 9,134 galaxy clusters. I Zwicky 18 I Zwicky 32, a face-on spiral galaxy...
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  • non-quantified complex problem. It was developed by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky. General morphology has found use in fields including engineering design...
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  • It is named after the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky. Observing in visible and infrared wavelengths, the Zwicky Transient Facility is designed to detect...
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    it in 1912 and published an article on the subject in 1936. In 1937, Fritz Zwicky posited that galaxy clusters could act as gravitational lenses, a claim...
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    expansion of the universe. The concept was first proposed in 1929 by Fritz Zwicky, who suggested that if photons lost energy over time through collisions...
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  • crimes Fritz Walter (1920–2002), German footballer Fritz Wepper (born 1941), German actor Fritz Wunderlich (1930–1966), German tenor Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974)...
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    Astronomical Union in Rome. Together with Fritz Zwicky, he identified supernovae as a new category of astronomical objects. Zwicky and he also proposed the existence...
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  • academic Fritz Zwicky, astrophysicist who proposed dark matter, or objects named after him: Zwicky (crater), crater on the Moon 1803 Zwicky, asteroid...
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    ring has a circular velocity of 217 km/s. It was discovered by Fritz Zwicky in 1941. Zwicky considered his discovery "one of the most complicated structures...
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    of universal expansion and thus a Big Bang, whereas Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky proposed that the redshift was caused by the photons losing energy as...
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  • Chandrasekhar, Enrico Fermi, Paul Ledoux, Richard Bader and Eugene Parker. Fritz Zwicky was the first to use the virial theorem to deduce the existence of unseen...
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    1933, Swiss astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky studied galaxy clusters while working at Cal Tech and made a similar inference. Zwicky applied the virial theorem...
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    of the Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies compiled by Fritz Zwicky in 1968, where it was listed as CGCG 097-087, and its coordinates listed...
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    far less luminous. The word supernova was coined by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky, who began using it in astrophysics lectures in 1931. Its first use in...
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    observed in NGC 3184: SN 1921B (type unknown, mag. 13.5) was discovered by Fritz Zwicky on 6 April 1921. SN 1921C (type unknown, mag. 11) was discovered on 5...
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    Laboratory (AFGL) in 1971 to 1974. (Previously, the object was catalogued by Fritz Zwicky as a pair of galaxies.) The Egg Nebula's defining feature is the series...
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  • The Fritz Zwicky Prize for Astrophysics and Cosmology is awarded biennially to a living person who, in the estimation of the judges, "has obtained fundamental...
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    Group. It lies 2.6 million light-years from Earth, and was discovered by Fritz Zwicky in 1942. The estimated mass of this galaxy is (8.0 ± 2.7) × 107 solar...
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    between cosmic rays and supernovas was first suggested by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky in 1934. Vitaly Ginzburg and Sergei Syrovatskii in 1964 remarked that...
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    The existence of neutron stars was first proposed by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky in 1934, when they argued that a small, dense star consisting primarily...
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    researched galaxies and supernovas under the leadership of countryman Fritz Zwicky from 1951 through 1955. At the Zimmerwald Observatory, near Bern, Wild...
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  • galaxy Leo II and co-discovered the globular cluster Palomar 12 with Fritz Zwicky. The asteroid 3216 Harrington was not named after Robert George Harrington...
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    been observed in M99: SN 1967H (type II, mag. 14.0) was discovered by Fritz Zwicky on 1 July 1967. SN 1972Q (type unknown, mag. 15.8) was discovered by...
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    The dark matter problem, proposed in 1933 by Swiss-American astronomer Fritz Zwicky, refers to the fact that scientists still do not know what form dark...
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    Gates, was the first wife of astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky. He remained lifelong friends with Fritz Zwicky. He lived in Big Sur, California in later life...
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