Zwicky

American  

[tsvik-ee] / ˈtsvɪk i /

noun

1. Fritz 1898–1974, Swiss astrophysicist, born in Bulgaria, in the U.S. after 1925.

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Zwicky British  

/ ˈtsvɪkɪ /

noun

1. Fritz. 1898–1974, Swiss astronomer and physicist, working in the US from 1925; noted for his study of supernovae

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Zwicky

Ho wrote the software that flagged the event in September 2022, while sifting through a half-million changes, or transients, detected daily in an all-sky survey conducted by the Califrnia-based Zwicky Transient Facility.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2023

It was picked up by the Zwicky Transient Facility at Caltech.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2023

Janus was spotted using the Zwicky Transient Facility at Caltech's Palomar Observatory near San Diego, with subsequent observations made by other ground-based telescopes.

From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023

In May 2020, Kishalay De, an astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and colleagues were studying data from the Zwicky Transient Facility, an optical survey telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California.

From Science Magazine ● May 3, 2023

The term supernova was coined in the 1930s by a memorably odd astrophysicist named Fritz Zwicky.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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