Zwicky : the outcast genius who unmasked the universe / John Johnson, Jr.
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 m...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
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Table of 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: dark matter rattles 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.