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Document 25120

FRITZ ZWICKY. Signature: "Fritz Zwicky", 5½x3¼ card. Fritz Zwicky (1898-1974) was an eccentric Swiss-American astronomer who was Professor of Astronomy at Caltech. He studied extragalactic supernovae and the distribution of galaxies in Coma Berenices. Zwicky was the first to consider gravitational lensing by extragalactic objects.
Zwicky had a difficult personality and was known to accost unfamiliar students in the astronomy building at Caltech with the interrogation "Who the hell are you?". Pinhead- size stain above signature. Notes on verso (unknown hand, no show through). Fine condition.

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