1 January 1934President of SwitzerlandMarcel Pilet-Golaz
Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.
Historical records for Switzerland in 1934, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.
Delivers the Gibbs Lecture on an elementary proof of the equivalence of mass and energy.
Zwicky and Baade coin the term "supernova" and hypothesized that they were the transition of normal stars into neutron stars, as well as the origin of cosmic rays. In support of this hypothesis, Zwicky started hunting for supernovae, and found a total of 120 by himself (and one more, SN 1963J, in concert with Paul Wild) over a stretch of 52 years
Publishes reflections on how fundamental theoretical physics develops from principles and mathematical structure.
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