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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Example Sentences

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky noticed that many galaxies were moving far faster than their visible mass should permit.

From Science Daily

In search of answers, a team of astronomers used the Zwicky Transient Facility, an automated telescope that looks for objects that change in the night sky, to hunt for varying AGNs.

From Science Magazine

In 2019, a routine observation by the Zwicky scope noticed a previously unheralded quiescent galaxy called SDSS1335+0728, 300 million light-years away, suddenly brighten.

From Science Magazine

In February of 2020, he and his colleagues got lucky, with the detection of AT2020ocn, a bright flash, emanating from a galaxy about a billion light years away, that was initially spotted in the optical band by the Zwicky Transient Facility.

From Science Daily

Over the last century, beginning with work in the 1930s by Fritz Zwicky, a Bulgarian-born Swiss astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, astronomers have slowly concluded that most of the universe is composed of stuff we can’t see.

From New York Times