Zwicky: The Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe 0674979672, 9780674979673

From a prize-winning science writer, a riveting account of the life and work of the prodigiously original maverick who h

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Zwicky: The Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe
0674979672, 9780674979673

Fritz Zwicky was one of the most inventive and iconoclastic scientists of the twentieth century. He predicted the existe

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