The Fritz Zwicky Foundation FZF
(Fritz Zwicky Stiftung FZS)

The Fritz Zwicky Foundation, established on 23 January 1973, holds and manages Fritz Zwicky’s entire estate, which is catalogued and archived in the Glarus cantonal library (Landesbibliothek Glarus). The Foundation’s objective is to conserve and manage Fritz Zwicky’s lifework, and to promote morphological research.

Fritz Zwicky (1898-1974)

Fritz Zwicky was born on 14 February 1898 in Varna (Bulgaria), a citizen of Mollis (today Glarus Nord, canton of Glarus, Switzerland). From 1925, Zwicky worked at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (California). The prediction and discovery of and research on supernovae, the compiling of an extensive and comprehensive catalog of clusters of galaxies, a catalog of selected compact galaxies and of post-eruptive galaxies, and the development of morphology are the more prominent projects which place Fritz Zwicky among the most important scientists of the 20th century.


 
 
   

New Biography

This new biography (→ Foundation/New Biography) by Alfred Stöckli and Roland Müller is a readable book, richly illustrated with 100 color and black-and-white images. It includes a scientific appreciation of Zwicky’s work from today’s perspective by Prof. Dr. A.G. Tammann, and an audio CD by H.P. Gschwend (German edition only).

  • The German edition, «Fritz Zwicky, Astrophysiker. Genie mit Ecken und Kanten», was published in September 2008 by Neue Zürcher Zeitung Publishers (NZZ Libro), Zürich.
  • The English version «Fritz Zwicky, An Extraordinary Astrophysicist» was published in May 2012 by Cambridge Scientific Publishers, Cambridge.

Credit Line

Published by: Fritz Zwicky Foundation Glarus
Texts: Prof. Paul Wild, Dr. Roland Müller
English Translation: lic. phil. Margrit Zwicky
Layout: Toni Schriber
Copyright: All rights to texts and illustrations are held by the Fritz Zwicky Foundation.