biography
pronunciation:
[zvikee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1974)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Varna, NE Bulgaria, of Swiss parents. He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, then took a position at the California Institute of Technology in 1925, becoming professor of astrophysics there (1942–68). He remained a Swiss citizen all his life. He researched extensively into galaxies and interstellar matter, and produced the standard catalogue on compact galaxies. In 1934 he predicted the existence of neutron stars and black holes. |
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