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Fritz Zwicky

1898 - 1974

Fritz Zwicky

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 388,449 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.

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Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani
810 - 860
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 50
Percival Lowell
1855 - 1916
HPI: 71.87
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William Lassell
1799 - 1880
HPI: 71.84
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Ferdinand Verbiest
1623 - 1688
HPI: 71.71
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Max Wolf
1863 - 1932
HPI: 71.66
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Riccardo Giacconi
1931 - 2018
HPI: 71.62
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Fritz Zwicky
1898 - 1974
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 56
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
1822 - 1875
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 57
Martin Ryle
1918 - 1984
HPI: 71.50
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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
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HPI: 71.41
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Antony Hewish
1924 - Present
HPI: 71.37
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Gerard Kuiper
1905 - 1973
HPI: 71.27
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William Alfred Fowler
1911 - 1995
HPI: 71.11
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Contemporaries

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.

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Kenji Mizoguchi
1898 - 1956
HPI: 72.78
Rank: 34
Aloysius Stepinac
1898 - 1960
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 35
Peng Dehuai
1898 - 1974
HPI: 72.20
Rank: 36
Georges Dumézil
1898 - 1986
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 37
Curzio Malaparte
1898 - 1957
HPI: 72.04
Rank: 38
Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois
1898 - 1977
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 39
Fritz Zwicky
1898 - 1974
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 40
Joseph Murphy
1898 - 1981
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 41
Therese Neumann
1898 - 1962
HPI: 71.52
Rank: 42
Julius Schreck
1898 - 1936
HPI: 71.28
Rank: 43
Josef Terboven
1898 - 1945
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 44
Konrad Henlein
1898 - 1945
HPI: 70.87
Rank: 45
Vicente Aleixandre
1898 - 1984
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 46