![Fritz Zwicky looking into space using the then brand-new Schmidt telescope in 1936.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/zwicky-titel-300x225.jpg)
Fritz Zwicky: an overlooked Swiss genius
Fritz Zwicky from the canton of Glarus was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. The story of an overlooked genius.
TV segment on Fritz Zwicky. YouTube
![Fritz Zwicky in his office in California in 1947.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/zwicky-buro-300x234.jpg)
![The Nazis’ V2 testing site in Peenemünde, photographed in October 1942](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/raketentest-peenemunde-300x239.jpg)
![Fritz Zwicky was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1949, one of the two highest civilian awards in the US at the time.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/Zwicky-Medaille-271x300.jpg)
TV segment on the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. YouTube
![‘Earth’s gravity finally beaten’ wrote the daily paper Rochester on 23 November 1957.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/zeitungsartikel-zwicky-300x192.jpg)