Fritz Zwicky - Publications

Publications

Zwicky produced hundreds of publications over a long career, covering a great breadth of topics. This brief selection, with comments, gives a taste of his work.

• Zwicky, F. (October 1929), "On the Red Shift of Spectral Lines through Interstellar Space", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 15 (10): 773–779, Bibcode 1929PNAS...15..773Z, doi:10.1073/pnas.15.10.773, PMC 522555, PMID 16577237. This is the article that proposes a tired light model to explain Hubble's law. (full article)
• Baade, W.; Zwicky, F. (1934), "On Super-novae", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 20 (5): 254–259, Bibcode 1934PNAS...20..254B, doi:10.1073/pnas.20.5.254, PMC 1076395, PMID 16587881, and Baade, W.; Zwicky, F. (1934), "Cosmic Rays from Super-novae", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 20 (5): 259–263, Bibcode 1934PNAS...20..259B, doi:10.1073/pnas.20.5.259. These consecutive articles introduce the notion of a supernova and a neutron star respectively.
• Zwicky, F. (November 1938), "On Collapsed Neutron Stars", Astrophysical Journal 88: 522–525, Bibcode 1938ApJ....88..522Z, doi:10.1086/144003. The idea of a neutron star, previously introduced in the supernova paper, is explained along with the idea of critical stellar mass and black holes.
• Zwicky, F. (December 1939), "On the Formation of Clusters of Nebulae and the Cosmological Time Scale", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 25 (12): 604–609, Bibcode 1939PNAS...25..604Z, doi:10.1073/pnas.25.12.604. Zwicky argues that the shape of nebulae indicate a universe far older than can be accounted for by an expanding universe model.
• Zwicky, F. (August 1941), "A Mosaic Objective Grating for the 18-inch Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 53: 242–244, Bibcode 1941PASP...53..242Z, doi:10.1086/125331. Zwicky was a great advocate for the use of the wide angle Schmidt telescope, which he used to great effect to make many discoveries.
• Zwicky, F. (1945), Report on certain phases of war research in Germany, Aerojet Engineering Corp, http://www.amazon.com/Report-certain-phases-research-Germany/dp/B0007FJ1YY/ref=sr_1_13/103-8097003-4392634?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184050104&sr=1-13. Zwicky did work on jet propulsion and other matters with Aerojet corporation during and after the war.
• Zwicky, F. (1957), Morphological astronomy, Springer-Verlag, http://www.amazon.com/Morphological-astronomy-F-Zwicky/dp/B0006AVA3K/ref=sr_1_10/103-8097003-4392634?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184050104&sr=1-10. In this book Zwicky gives free rein to his ideas on morphological research as a tool for making discoveries in astronomy.
• Zwicky, F. (October 1958), "Nuclear Goblins and Flare Stars", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 70: 506–508, Bibcode 1958PASP...70..506Z, doi:10.1086/127284. As well as proposing neutron stars, Zwicky also proposed unstable aggregations of neutron density matter within larger stars.
• Zwicky, F. (1969), Discovery, invention, research through the morphological approach, MacMillan, http://www.amazon.com/Discovery-invention-research-morphological-approach/dp/B0006BYL8U/ref=sr_1_5/103-8097003-4392634?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184050104&sr=1-5. Zwicky also proposed that the morphological approach could be applied to all kinds of issues in disciplines going far beyond basic science.