List of Famous people with last name Zwicky

Fritz Zwicky

First Name Fritz
Last Name Zwicky
Born on February 14, 1898
Died on February 8, 1974 (aged 75)

Fritz Zwicky 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. In 1933, Zwicky was the first to use the virial theorem to infer the existence of unseen dark matter, describing it as "dunkle (kalt) Materie".

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