1898 - 1974
Fritz Zwicky (; German: [ˈtsvɪki]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Zwicky has received more than 435,604 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Fritz Zwicky is the 56th most popular astronomer, the 28th most popular biography from Bulgaria (down from 25th in 2019) and the most popular Bulgarian Astronomer.
Fritz Zwicky is most famous for his discovery of dark matter. In 1933, he observed that the velocities of galaxies in the Coma Cluster were too high to be attributed to the gravitational pull of the cluster. He hypothesized that there must be some unseen matter holding the cluster together.
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Among astronomers, Fritz Zwicky ranks 56 out of 532. Before him are Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, Percival Lowell, William Lassell, Ferdinand Verbiest, Max Wolf, and Riccardo Giacconi. After him are Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Martin Ryle, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Antony Hewish, Gerard Kuiper, and William Alfred Fowler.
810 - 860
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 50
1855 - 1916
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 51
1799 - 1880
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 52
1623 - 1688
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 53
1863 - 1932
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 54
1931 - 2018
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 55
1898 - 1974
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 56
1822 - 1875
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 57
1918 - 1984
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 58
1793 - 1864
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 59
1924 - Present
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 60
1905 - 1973
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 61
1911 - 1995
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 62
Among people born in 1898, Fritz Zwicky ranks 40. Before him are Kenji Mizoguchi, Aloysius Stepinac, Peng Dehuai, Georges Dumézil, Curzio Malaparte, and Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois. After him are Joseph Murphy, Therese Neumann, Julius Schreck, Josef Terboven, Konrad Henlein, and Vicente Aleixandre. Among people deceased in 1974, Fritz Zwicky ranks 26. Before him are Otto Strasser, Miguel Ángel Asturias, David Oistrakh, Louis Kahn, Peng Dehuai, and Satyendra Nath Bose. After him are Walter Lippmann, Zalman Shazar, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Marcel Pagnol, Nikolai Kuznetsov, and Patrick Blackett.
1898 - 1956
HPI: 72.78
Rank: 34
1898 - 1960
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 35
1898 - 1974
HPI: 72.20
Rank: 36
1898 - 1986
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 37
1898 - 1957
HPI: 72.04
Rank: 38
1898 - 1977
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 39
1898 - 1974
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 40
1898 - 1981
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 41
1898 - 1962
HPI: 71.52
Rank: 42
1898 - 1936
HPI: 71.28
Rank: 43
1898 - 1945
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 44
1898 - 1945
HPI: 70.87
Rank: 45
1898 - 1984
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 46
1897 - 1974
HPI: 73.32
Rank: 20
1899 - 1974
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 21
1908 - 1974
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 22
1901 - 1974
HPI: 72.35
Rank: 23
1898 - 1974
HPI: 72.20
Rank: 24
1894 - 1974
HPI: 71.84
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1898 - 1974
HPI: 71.59
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1889 - 1974
HPI: 70.98
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1889 - 1974
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Rank: 28
1896 - 1974
HPI: 70.87
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1895 - 1974
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 30
1904 - 1974
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 31
1897 - 1974
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 32
Among people born in Bulgaria, Fritz Zwicky ranks 28 out of 313. Before him are Tzvetan Todorov (1939), Ratko Janev (1939), Saint Naum (830), Sylvie Vartan (1944), Hristo Stoichkov (1966), and Kaloyan of Bulgaria (1168). After him are Nicolai Ghiaurov (1929), Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria (1195), Christian Rakovsky (1873), Vlado Chernozemski (1897), Vasil Levski (1837), and Michael Shishman of Bulgaria (1280).
1939 - 2017
HPI: 73.11
Rank: 22
1939 - 2019
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 23
830 - 910
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 24
1944 - Present
HPI: 71.97
Rank: 25
1966 - Present
HPI: 71.79
Rank: 26
1168 - 1207
HPI: 71.77
Rank: 27
1898 - 1974
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 28
1929 - 2004
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 29
1195 - 1241
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 30
1873 - 1941
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 31
1897 - 1934
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 32
1837 - 1873
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 33
1280 - 1330
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 34
Among astronomers born in Bulgaria, Fritz Zwicky ranks 1.