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Johnson, John, 1947- author.
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Zwicky, F. (Fritz), 1898-1974.
Astrophysicists -- Biography.
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Zwicky : the outcast...
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Zwicky : the outcast genius who unmasked the universe / John Johnson Jr.
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Johnson, John, 1947- author.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Zwicky, F. (Fritz), 1898-1974.
Astrophysicists -- Biography.
Astrophysics -- History -- 20th century.
Science news.
ISBN:
9780674979673 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) :
0674979672 (hardcover ; alkaline paper):
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viii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Noted young men of science -- Glarus thrust -- On the trail of Zwicky's ghost: the bones of the earth -- The bigger and better elephant -- Quantum steak and matrix salad -- The expanding universe and tired light -- On the trail of Zwicky's ghost: the skeleton of the universe -- New alliances, new physics -- Tilting at windmills -- Rocket man -- Home fires -- Secret missions, finding Von Braun -- The march into space -- Bridges in space -- Domestic life -- On the trail of Zwicky's ghost: did dark matter rattle its chains? -- McCarthy and Sputnik -- Blue stars and quasars -- Banishment: even the old lion must roar -- Young America going to pot -- Magnificent desolation -- On the trail of Zwicky's ghost: mystery unsolved -- A scientific individual.
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"Fritz Zwicky was one of the most inventive and iconoclastic scientists of the twentieth century. He predicted the existence of neutron stars, and his research pointed the way toward the discovery of pulsars and black holes. He was the first to conceive of the existence of dark matter, the first to make a detailed catalog of thousands of galaxies, and the first to correctly suggest that cosmic rays originate from supernovas. Not content to confine his discoveries to the heavens, Zwicky contributed to the US war against Japan with inventions in jet propulsion that enabled aircraft to launch from carriers in the Pacific. After the war, he was the first Western scientist to interview Wernher von Braun, the Nazi engineer who developed the V-2 rocket. Later he became an outspoken advocate for space exploration, but also tangled with almost every leading scientist of the time, from Edwin Hubble and Richard Feynman to J. Robert Oppenheimer and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. In Zwicky, John Johnson Jr. brings this tempestuous maverick to life. Zwicky not only made groundbreaking contributions to science and engineering; he rose to fame as one of the most imaginative science popularizers of his day. Yet he became a pariah in the scientific community, denouncing his enemies, real and imagined, as "spherical bastards" and "horses' asses." Largely forgotten today, Zwicky deserves to be remembered for introducing the world to some of the most destructive forces in the universe, and as a reminder that genius obeys no rules and has no friends."--Page [2] of cover.
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Hawaii State Library
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523.01092 Zwicky Jo
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