[5] Geoff McNamara, Clocks in The Sky (2008), page 24.
Father: Fridolin Zwicky (accountant, b. 1868, d. 1944)
Mother: Franziska Wrcek (b. 1871, d. 1927)
Wife: Dorothy Vernon Gates ("Dorothea", m. 25-Mar-1932, div. 1941)
Wife: Anna Margaritha Zuercher (m. 15-Oct-1947, three daughters)
Daughter: Margarit (b. 1948)
Daughter: Franziska (b. 1950)
Daughter: Barbarina (b. 1952)
University: BS Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (1920)
University: PhD Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (1922)
Teacher: Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (1922-25)
Teacher: Physics, California Institute of Technology (1925-42)
Professor: Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology (1942-68)
Scholar: Astronomer, Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories (1927-68)
Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal 1972
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1949
International Space Hall of Fame 1976
American Astronautical Society
American Physical Society
International Academy of Astronautics Vice President
Society for Morphological Research Founder
Swiss Physics Society
US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (1945-49)
GenCorp Aerojet Engineering Corp.:Research Director (1943-49)
GenCorp Aerojet Engineering Corp.:Research Consultant (1949-61)
Asteroid Namesake 1803 Zwicky
Lunar Crater Zwicky (15.4° S, 168.1° E, 150 km. diameter)
Galaxy Namesake I Zwicky 18
Naturalized Swiss Citizen
Heart Attack 8-Feb-1974 (fatal)
Swiss Ancestry
Author of books:
Morphological Astronomy (1957)
Morphology of Propulsive Power (1962)
Catalog of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies (1961)
New Methods of Thought and Procedure (1967)
Discovery, Invention, Research through the Morphological Approach (1969)
Catalogue of Selected Compact Galaxies and of Post-Eruptive Galaxies (1971)