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California Institute of Technology in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at California Institute of Technology in Switzerland. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records2 event labels1 people1933–1937

Historical events in California Institute of Technology

1933

1933
Dark Matter
Fritz Zwicky · Astrophysics

Infers unseen mass in the Coma Cluster from galaxy velocities.

1937

1937
Gravitational Lensing
Fritz Zwicky · Astronomy

Argues that galaxies could act as gravitational lenses.

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