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Janine Louise Zwicky is a Canadian philosopher, poet, essayist, and musician. She was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2022.
Fritz Zwicky 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. In 1933, Zwicky was the first to use the virial theorem to infer the existence of unseen dark matter, describing it as "dunkle Materie".
The Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies was compiled by Fritz Zwicky in 1961–68. It contains 29,418 galaxies and 9,134 galaxy clusters.
I Zwicky 18 is a blue compact dwarf galaxy located about 59 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy was first identified by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in a 1930s photographic survey of galaxies.
Arnold M. Zwicky is a perennial visiting professor of linguistics at Stanford University, and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Ohio State University.
Zwicky is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Rolf Bernhard is a retired long jumper from Switzerland. A three-time Olympian, he won two medals at the European Indoor Championships. Bernhard competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1976 Summer Olympics, and 1980 Summer Olympics.
Fay Zwicky was an Australian poet, short story writer, critic and academic primarily known for her autobiographical poem Kaddish, which deals with her identity as a Jewish writer.
Rolf Johnsson was a Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Swedish team, which was able to win the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team event in 1908.
Rolf Holmberg was a Norwegian association football player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Norwegian team, which won the bronze medal in the football tournament.
Rolf Bernt Thorsen is a Norwegian former competition rower, world champion and Olympic medalist.
Rolf Geiger is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. He spent four seasons in the Bundesliga with VfB Stuttgart. He represented Germany in eight friendlies. He also played for the United Team of Germany at the 1956 Olympics.
Events in the year 1961 in Norway.
Events in the year 1962 in Norway.
Rolf Aas was a Norwegian football player. He was born in Kristiania. He played as a winger for Mercantile and Lyn. He was capped 19 times for Norwegian national team scoring two goals, and played at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920, where the Norwegian team reached the quarter finals. He died in Oslo in 1946.
Rolf Semb-Thorstvedt was a Norwegian football player for the club SK Frigg. He was born in Kristiania. He played with the Norwegian national team at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920, where the Norwegian team reached the quarter finals. He was capped two times for Norway.
The Zwicky Transient Facility is a wide-field sky astronomical survey using a new camera attached to the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States. Commissioned in 2018, it supersedes the (Intermediate) Palomar Transient Factory (2009–2017) that used the same observatory code. It is named after the astronomer Fritz Zwicky.
Zwicky's Triplet is a group of three galaxies visible in the constellation Hercules.
Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often, leading someone to believe that it has an increased frequency of occurrence. It occurs when increased awareness of something creates the illusion that it is appearing more often. Put plainly, the frequency illusion occurs when "a concept or thing you just found out about suddenly seems to pop up everywhere."
Rolf Schmidt is a German sailor. He competed in the men's 470 event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
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- ↑ "Rolf Zwicky". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
