100 Notable alumni of
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich is 314th in the world, 108th in Europe, and 3rd in Switzerland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 4 individuals affiliated with Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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Albert Einstein
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- 1896-1900 graduated with Bachelor of Science in mathematics education
- Occupations
- physicist
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Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics, and was thus a central figure in the revolutionary reshaping of the scientific understanding of nature that modern physics accomplished in the first decades of the twentieth century. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World, Einstein was ranked the greatest physicist of all time. His intellectual achievements and originality have made the word Einstein broadly synonymous with genius.
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Mileva Marić
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- teacher
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Mileva Marić, sometimes called Mileva Marić-Einstein (Милева Марић-Ајнштајн, Mileva Marić-Ajnštajn), was a Serbian physicist, mathematician, and the first wife of Albert Einstein from 1903 to 1919. She was the only woman among Einstein's fellow students at Zürich Polytechnic. She was Marić and Einstein were study colleagues and lovers, and had a daughter Lieserl in 1902, who likely died of scarlet fever at one and a half years old. They later had two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard.
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Klaus Schwab
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- pedagogueinternational forum participanteconomist
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Klaus Martin Schwab is a German engineer, economist, and founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF). He has acted as the WEF's chairman since founding the organisation in 1971.
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Wilhelm Röntgen
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- 1865-1868 studied mechanical engineering
- Occupations
- physicistengineerresearcherprofessor
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. In honour of Röntgen's accomplishments, in 2004 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named element 111, roentgenium, a radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him. The unit of measurement roentgen was also named after him.
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Fritz Haber
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- physicistuniversity teacheracademicchemistengineer
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Fritz Haber was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. This invention is important for the large-scale synthesis of fertilisers and explosives. It is estimated that one-third of annual global food production uses ammonia from the Haber–Bosch process, and that this supports nearly half of the world's population. Haber, along with Max Born, proposed the Born–Haber cycle as a method for evaluating the lattice energy of an ionic solid. For his former mentioned work Haber has been called one of the most important scientists and industrial chemists in human history.
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Santiago Calatrava
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- structural engineerarchitectengineercivil engineerconservator
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Santiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms. His best-known works include the Olympic Sports Complex of Athens, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Turning Torso tower in Malmö, Sweden, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York City, the Auditorio de Tenerife in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, Texas, and his largest project, the City of Arts and Sciences and Opera House in his birthplace, Valencia. His architectural firm has offices in New York City, Doha, and Zürich.
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Ferdinand Piëch
- Occupations
- business executiveinventorengineeruniversity teacherindustrialist
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Ferdinand Karl Piëch was an Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who was the chairman of the executive board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) of Volkswagen Group in 1993–2002 and the chairman of the supervisory board (Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender) of Volkswagen Group in 2002–2015.
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Max Frisch
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- screenwriterbiographerpoetarchitectplaywright
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Max Rudolf Frisch was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. The use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war output. Frisch was one of the founders of Gruppe Olten. He was awarded the 1965 Jerusalem Prize, the 1973 Grand Schiller Prize, and the 1986 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
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Naguib Sawiris
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- diplomatentrepreneurpoliticianbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
- Biography
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Naguib Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian businessman. Sawiris is chairman of Weather Investments's parent company, and the former chairman and CEO of Orascom Telecom Holding and Orascom Investment Holding S.A.E.
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Gabriel Narutowicz
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- diplomatpoliticianuniversity teachercivil engineerforeign minister
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Gabriel Józef Narutowicz was a Polish professor of hydroelectric engineering and politician who served as the first President of Poland from 11 December 1922 until his assassination on 16 December, five days after assuming office. He previously served as the Minister of Public Works from 1920 to 1922 and briefly as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1922. A renowned engineer and politically independent, Narutowicz was the first elected head of state following Poland's regained sovereignty from partitioning powers.
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Simon Ammann
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- ski jumperalpine skier
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Simon Ammann is a Swiss ski jumper. He is one of the most successful athletes in the history of the sport, having won four individual Winter Olympic gold medals in 2002 and 2010. His other achievements include winning the 2007 Ski Jumping World Championships, the 2010 Ski Flying World Championships, the 2010 Nordic Tournament, and the 2010 Ski Jumping World Cup overall title.
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Auguste Piccard
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- physicistballoonistuniversity teacherexplorerPrivatdozent
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Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere and became the first person to enter the Stratosphere. Piccard was also known for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths.
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Niklaus Wirth
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- In 1959 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacherprogrammerinventorengineer
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Niklaus Emil Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, "for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages".
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Hansjörg Wyss
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- In 1959 graduated with Master of Science in civil engineering and structural engineering
- Occupations
- entrepreneurphilanthropistbusinesspersoninvestorinternational forum participant
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Johann Georg Wyss known as Hansjörg Wyss is a Swiss billionaire businessman and donor to politically liberal and environmental causes in the United States. He is the founder and the former president and chairman of Synthes Holding AG, a medical device manufacturer. His Wyss Foundation has more than $2 billion in assets. As of 2023, Wyss had a net worth of US$4.7 billion, according to Forbes. Having donated hundreds of millions of dollars to environmental causes, he has more recently increased his donations to groups promoting progressive causes. He is currently the co-owner of Premier League football club Chelsea.
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Nikola Pašić
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- politiciandiplomat
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Nikola Pašić was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat. During his political career, which spanned almost five decades, he served five times as prime minister of Serbia and three times as prime minister of Yugoslavia, leading 22 governments in total. He played an instrumental role in the founding of Yugoslavia and is considered one of the most influential figures in Serbian twentieth-century history. Pašić was the longest-serving prime minister of Serbia, though Ana Brnabić broke the record in 2024.
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Fritz Zwicky
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied in 1916-1922
- Occupations
- physicistastronomerastrophysicistuniversity teacher
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Fritz Zwicky was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy. In 1933, Zwicky was the first to use the virial theorem to postulate the existence of unseen dark matter, describing it as "dunkle Materie".
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Felix Bloch
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- nuclear physicistuniversity teacherphysicist
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Felix Bloch was a Swiss-American physicist and Nobel physics laureate who worked mainly in the U.S. He and Edward Mills Purcell were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "their development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements." In 1954–1955, he served for one year as the first director-general of CERN. Felix Bloch made fundamental theoretical contributions to the understanding of ferromagnetism and electron behavior in crystal lattices. He is also considered one of the developers of nuclear magnetic resonance.
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Johann Schneider-Ammann
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- In 1977 studied electrical engineering
- Occupations
- engineerinternational forum participantpoliticianindustrialist
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Johann Niklaus Schneider, known as Johann Schneider-Ammann, is a Swiss businessman and politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2010 to 2018. A member of FDP.The Liberals, he was President of the Swiss Confederation in 2016. During his tenure as a Federal Councillor, Schneider-Ammann headed the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research.
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Carl von Linde
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- physicistengineeruniversity teacherentrepreneur
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Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes, which led to the first reliable and efficient compressed-ammonia refrigerator in 1876. These breakthroughs laid the backbone for the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics that was awarded to Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. Linde was a member of scientific and engineering associations, including being on the board of trustees of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Linde was also the founder of what is now known as Linde plc but formerly known (variously) as the Linde division of Union Carbide, Linde, Linde Air Products, Praxair, and others. Linde is the world's largest producer of industrial gases and ushered in the creation of the global supply chain for industrial gases. He was knighted in 1897 as Ritter von Linde.
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Maurice Koechlin
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- non-fiction writerengineercivil engineer
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Maurice Koechlin was a Franco-Swiss structural engineer from the Koechlin family.
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Walter Thurnherr
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied in 1983-1987
- Occupations
- civil servantpoliticianinternational forum participantdiplomat
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Walter Thurnherr is a Swiss government official who served as Chancellor of Switzerland from 2016 to 2023. Although he holds a traditionally nonpartisan office, he was elected as a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC). When it merged with the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD) to form The Centre (DM/LC) in 2021, Thurnherr joined the new party.
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Alfred Werner
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- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alfred Werner was a Swiss chemist who was a student at ETH Zurich and a professor at the University of Zurich. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes. Werner developed the basis for modern coordination chemistry. He was the first inorganic chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and the only one prior to 1973.
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Bernard Tschumi
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- urban planneruniversity teacherarchitectarchitectural theoretician
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Bernard Tschumi is an architect, writer, and educator, commonly associated with deconstructivism. Son of the well-known Swiss architect Jean Tschumi and a French mother, Tschumi is a dual French-Swiss national who works and lives in New York City and Paris. He studied in Paris and at ETH in Zurich, where he received his degree in architecture in 1969.
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Hermann Staudinger
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- chemistuniversity teacherengineer
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Hermann Staudinger was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Vladimir Prelog
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- chemistuniversity teacherengineer
- Biography
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Vladimir Prelog was a Croatian-Swiss organic chemist who received the 1975 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions. Prelog was born and grew up in Sarajevo. He lived and worked in Prague, Zagreb and Zürich during his lifetime.
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Marcel Grossmann
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied in 1896-1900
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Marcel Grossmann was a Swiss mathematician and a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Grossmann was a member of an old Swiss family from Zürich. His father managed a textile factory. He became a Professor of Mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic School in Zürich, today the ETH Zurich, specializing in descriptive geometry.
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Leopold Ružička
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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Leopold Ružička was a Croatian-Swiss scientist and joint winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" "including the first chemical synthesis of male sex hormones." He worked most of his life in Switzerland, and received eight doctorates honoris causa in science, medicine, and law; seven prizes and medals; and twenty-four honorary memberships in chemical, biochemical, and other scientific societies.
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Michele Besso
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied in 1895
- Occupations
- engineermathematician
- Biography
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Michele Angelo Besso was a Swiss-Italian engineer best known for working closely with Albert Einstein.
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Emma Pooley
- Occupations
- sport cyclistmarathon runnertriathlete
- Biography
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Emma Jane Pooley is a British-Swiss athlete in multiple sports. A former professional cyclist who specialised in time trials and hilly races, she later transferred to endurance running, duathlon and triathlon, and was four-times world champion in long-distance duathlon. She competes in long-distance and uphill mountain running and has represented Switzerland at the world trailrunning championships.
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Albert Rösti
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- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Albert Rösti is a Swiss businessman, lobbyist and politician who has been a Member of the Swiss Federal Council since 1 January 2023. He previously presided over the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) from 2016 to 2020 and served as a member of the National Council for the canton of Bern from 2011 until 2022. Rösti resides in Uetendorf near Thun.
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Philippe Kahn
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- entrepreneurcomputer scientist
- Biography
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Philippe Kahn is a French engineer, entrepreneur and founder of four technology companies: Borland, Starfish Software, LightSurf Technologies, and Fullpower Technologies. Kahn is credited with creating the first camera phone, being a pioneer for wearable technology intellectual property, and is the author of dozens of technology patents covering Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) modeling, wearable, eyewear, smartphone, mobile, imaging, wireless, synchronization and medical technologies.
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Ivan Morozov
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- businesspersonart collector
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Ivan Abramovich Morozov was a Russian businessman and, from 1907 to 1914, a major collector of avant-garde French art.
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Hendrik Petrus Berlage
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- designerarchitectart theoristceramicistceramics designer
- Biography
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Hendrik Petrus Berlage was a Dutch architect and designer. He is considered one of the fathers of the architecture of the Amsterdam School.
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Martin Odersky
- Occupations
- professorengineercomputer scientistprogrammer
- Biography
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Martin Odersky is a German computer scientist and professor of programming methods at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He specializes in code analysis and programming languages. He spearheaded the design of Scala and Generic Java (and Pizza before).
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Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
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- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Ferdinand Georg Frobenius was a German mathematician, best known for his contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, number theory, and to group theory. He is known for the famous determinantal identities, known as Frobenius–Stickelberger formulae, governing elliptic functions, and for developing the theory of biquadratic forms. He was also the first to introduce the notion of rational approximations of functions (nowadays known as Padé approximants), and gave the first full proof for the Cayley–Hamilton theorem. He also lent his name to certain differential-geometric objects in modern mathematical physics, known as Frobenius manifolds.
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Marcel Janco
- Occupations
- architectsculptormusicianwriterillustrator
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Marcel Janco was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist. He was the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. In the 1910s, he co-edited, with Ion Vinea and Tristan Tzara, the Romanian art magazine Simbolul. Janco was a practitioner of Art Nouveau, Futurism and Expressionism before contributing his painting and stage design to Tzara's literary Dadaism. He parted with Dada in 1919, when he and painter Hans Arp founded a Constructivist circle, Das Neue Leben.
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Richard R. Ernst
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- chemistresearcher
- Biography
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Richard Robert Ernst was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate.
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Aldo van Eyck
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- architectuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Aldo van Eyck was a Dutch architect. He was one of the most influential protagonists of the architectural movement Structuralism.
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Heinrich Rohrer
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- physicist
- Biography
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Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. The Heinrich Rohrer Medal is presented triennially by the Surface Science Society of Japan with IBM Research – Zurich, Swiss Embassy in Japan, and Ms. Rohrer in his memory. The medal is not to be confused with the Heinrich Rohrer Award presented at the Nano Seoul 2020 conference.
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Jacques Roumain
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied in 1926
- Occupations
- journalistpoetwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Jacques Roumain was a Haitian writer, politician, and advocate of Marxism. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. Poet Langston Hughes, an African-American, translated some of Roumain's works, including Gouverneurs de la Rosée (Masters of the Dew). It was also adapted to film.
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Kurt Wüthrich
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- biophysicistuniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist/biophysicist and Nobel Chemistry laureate, known for developing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods for studying biological macromolecules.
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Urs Hölzle
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Urs Hölzle is a Swiss software engineer and technology executive. As Google's eighth employee and its first VP of Engineering, he has shaped much of Google's development processes and infrastructure, as well as its engineering culture. His most notable contributions include leading the development of fundamental cloud infrastructure such as energy-efficient data centers, distributed compute and storage systems, and software-defined networking. Until July 2023, he was the Senior Vice President of Technical Infrastructure and Google Fellow at Google. In July 2023, he transitioned to being a Google Fellow only.
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Tadeusz Reichstein
- Occupations
- university teacherscientistbotanistchemistphysician
- Biography
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Tadeusz Reichstein, also known as Tadeus Reichstein, was a Polish-Swiss chemist and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950), which was awarded for his work on the isolation of cortisone.
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Werner Arber
- Occupations
- biologistgeneticistphysicianuniversity teacher
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Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. Their work would lead to the development of recombinant DNA technology.
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Karl Alexander Müller
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- university teacherphysicist
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Karl Alexander Müller was a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their work in superconductivity in ceramic materials.
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Walter Ruttmann
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied architecture
- Occupations
- screenwritercinematographerpainterfilm directoranimator
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Walter Ruttmann was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger. He is best known for directing the semi-documentary 'city symphony' silent film, with orchestral score by Edmund Meisel, in 1927, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis. His audio montage Wochenende (Weekend) (1930) is considered a major contribution in the development of audio plays.
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Friedrich Adler
- Occupations
- physicistpoliticiantranslatorphilosopherjournalist
- Biography
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Friedrich Wolfgang "Fritz" Adler was an Austrian socialist politician, physicist, philosopher and journalist. He is perhaps best known for his assassination of Minister-President Karl von Stürgkh in 1916.
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Felix Finkbeiner
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied in 2018
- Occupations
- non-fiction writerconservationistblogger
- Biography
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Felix Finkbeiner is a German environmentalist and the founder of the international tree-planting and environmental advocacy organization Plant-for-the-Planet.
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Corine Mauch
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- 1980-1988 graduated with bachelor of agricultural engineering
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Corine Mauch is an American-born Swiss politician who currently serves as Mayor of Zurich since 2009. She previously served on the city council of Zürich between 1999 and 2008 for the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (of which she was a member since 1990). Mauch is the first female and first openly lesbian person to be elected mayor of the city.
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Georg Bednorz
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- physicist
- Biography
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Johannes Georg Bednorz is a German physicist who, together with K. Alex Müller, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Aurel Stodola
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied in 1880
- Occupations
- physicistinventorengineeruniversity teacher
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Aurel Boleslav Stodola was a Slovak engineer, physicist, and inventor. He was a pioneer in the area of technical thermodynamics and its applications and published his book Die Dampfturbine (the steam turbine) in 1903. In addition to the thermodynamic issues involved in turbine design the book discussed aspects of fluid flow, vibration, stress analysis of plates, shells and rotating discs and stress concentrations at holes and fillets. Stodola was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Swiss Polytechnical Institute (now ETH) in Zurich. He maintained friendly contact with Albert Einstein. In 1892, Stodola founded the Laboratory for Energy Conversion.
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Charles Édouard Guillaume
- Occupations
- researcherphysicist
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Charles Édouard Guillaume was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys. In 1919, he gave the fifth Guthrie Lecture at the Institute of Physics in London with the title "The Anomaly of the Nickel-Steels".
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Géza Maróczy
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied in 1902
- Occupations
- chess playernon-fiction writerhydraulic engineer
- Biography
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Géza Maróczy was a Hungarian chess player, one of the leading players in the world in his time. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the International Grandmaster title from FIDE in 1950.
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Mete Atatüre
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied in 2004-2006
- Occupations
- researcherphysicist
- Biography
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Mete Atatüre is a Turkish physicist working on experimental solid-state quantum optics, in particular on the optical control of spin-photon coupling for quantum networks as well as investigation of many-body physics in atomically-thin heterostructures, with the aim of developing new materials and devices for quantum sensing applications.
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Robert Maillart
- Occupations
- civil engineerarchitect
- Biography
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Robert Maillart was a Swiss civil engineer who revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings. His Salginatobel (1929–1930) and Schwandbach (1933) bridges changed the aesthetics and engineering of bridge construction dramatically and influenced decades of architects and engineers after him. In 1991 the Salginatobel Bridge was declared an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Valerio Olgiati
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- architectuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Valerio Olgiati is a Swiss architect. He initially studied architecture at ETH Zurich, a public research university in Zurich, Switzerland.
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John Houbolt
- Occupations
- aerospace engineerengineer
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John Cornelius Houbolt was an aerospace engineer credited with leading the team behind the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission mode, a concept that was used to successfully land humans on the Moon and return them to Earth. This flight path was chosen for the Apollo program in July 1962. The critical decision to use LOR was viewed as vital to ensuring that man reached the Moon by the end of the decade as proposed by President John F. Kennedy. In the process, LOR saved time and billions of dollars by efficiently using the rocket and spacecraft technologies.
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Corrado Böhm
- Occupations
- computer scientistlogicianuniversity teacherengineermathematician
- Biography
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Corrado Böhm was an Italian computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", known especially for his contributions to the theory of structured programming, constructive mathematics, combinatory logic, lambda calculus, and the semantics and implementation of functional programming languages.
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Paul Scherrer
- Occupations
- physicistnuclear physicistuniversity teachercrystallographer
- Biography
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Paul Hermann Scherrer was a Swiss physicist. Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, he studied at Göttingen, Germany, before becoming a lecturer there. Later, Scherrer became head of the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich.
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Andreas Küttel
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- 1999-2005 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- ski jumperphysical education teacher
- Biography
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Andreas Küttel is a Swiss former ski jumper who currently works in the field of sports science at the University of Southern Denmark.
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Kaspar Villiger
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kaspar Villiger is a Swiss businessman, former tobacco manufacturer and politician. He served as a member of the Federal Council (Switzerland) since 1 February 1989 for The Liberals. Villiger served two terms as President of the Swiss Confederation in 1995 and again in 2002. He previously served on the Council of States (Switzerland) from 1987 to 1989 and on the National Council (Switzerland) from 1982 to 1987.
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Friedrich Hirzebruch
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied in 1949-1950
- Occupations
- university teacherprofessor of mathematicsmathematician
- Biography
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Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He has been described as "the most important mathematician in Germany of the postwar period."
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Luigi Snozzi
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- architectteacher
- Biography
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Luigi Snozzi was a Swiss architect, born in Mendrisio, Ticino. He worked in Locarno and Lugano.
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Jacques Herzog
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- architect
- Biography
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Jacques Herzog is a Swiss architect. He co-founded Herzog & de Meuron architectural firm in 1978 in Basel, Switzerland.
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Stefanos Manos
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- politician
- Biography
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Stefanos Manos is a Greek politician, former member of the Hellenic Parliament, and a former government minister.
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Christophe Darbellay
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christophe Darbellay in Martigny is a Swiss politician, member of The Centre.
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Aurelio Galfetti
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- architectuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Aurelio Galfetti was a Swiss architect.
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Annemarie Huber-Hotz
- Occupations
- politicianethnologistsociologist
- Biography
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Annemarie Huber-Hotz was a Swiss politician who served as the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland between 2000 and 2007. She was nominated by the FDP for the office, and elected to it on 15 December 1999. In 2011, she became President of the Swiss Red Cross and ex officio vice-president of the IFRC.
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Kazys Škirpa
- Occupations
- diplomatuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Kazys Škirpa was a Lithuanian military officer and diplomat. He is best known as the founder of the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) and his involvement in the attempt to establish Lithuanian independence in June 1941.
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August Kundt
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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August Adolf Eduard Eberhard Kundt was a German physicist.
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David Ruelle
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- mathematicianphysicist
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David Pierre Ruelle is a Belgian mathematical physicist, naturalized French. He has worked on statistical physics and dynamical systems. With Floris Takens, Ruelle coined the term strange attractor, and developed a new theory of turbulence.
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Albert Eschenmoser
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- In 1952 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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Albert Jakob Eschenmoser was a Swiss organic chemist, best known for his work on the synthesis of complex heterocyclic natural compounds, most notably vitamin B12. In addition to his significant contributions to the field of organic synthesis, Eschenmoser pioneered work in the Origins of Life (OoL) field with work on the synthetic pathways of artificial nucleic acids. Before retiring in 2009, Eschenmoser held tenured teaching positions at the ETH Zurich and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California as well as visiting professorships at the University of Chicago, Cambridge University, and Harvard.
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André Blattmann
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- military officerinternational forum participant
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André Blattmann was the Swiss Lieutenant General and Chief of the Armed Forces from 1 March 2009 (ad interim since 20 August 2008) until 31 December 2016. He led the Swiss army after the leave of Roland Nef ad interim on 25 July 2008.
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Armand Borel
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied in 1942-1947
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- university teachertopologistmathematician
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Armand Borel was a Swiss mathematician, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and was a permanent professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States from 1957 to 1993. He worked in algebraic topology, in the theory of Lie groups, and was one of the creators of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.
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Einat Kalisch-Rotem
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- urban plannerpoliticianarchitect
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Einat Kalisch-Rotem is an Israeli urban planner and politician serving as mayor of Haifa since 2018. She is the first female mayor to lead any of the three major cities in Israel.
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Nienke Brinkman
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied in 2016-2018
- Occupations
- long-distance runnergeophysicistmarathon runnertrail runner
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Nienke Brinkman is a Dutch long-distance runner. She won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 2022 European Athletics Championships, which was her first international medal. Brinkman holds the Dutch national record in the event, a record she broke in only her second marathon race.
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Martin Vetterli
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineerresearcherprofessorinternational forum participant
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Martin Vetterli is the current president of École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, succeeding Patrick Aebischer. He's a professor of engineering and was formerly the president of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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Toni Rüttimann
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- civil engineerengineer
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Toni Rüttimann is a Swiss bridge builder who works in Southeast Asia and in Latin America, where he is known as Toni el Suizo (Toni the Swiss).
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Christian Menn
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- civil engineer
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Christian Menn was a renowned Swiss civil engineer and bridge designer. He was involved in the construction of around 100 bridges worldwide, but the focus of his work was in eastern Switzerland, especially in canton Graubünden. He continued the tradition of and had a decisive influence on Swiss bridge building. The technical and aesthetic possibilities of prestressed concrete were most fully realized with his bridges in Switzerland.
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Gion A. Caminada
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- architectuniversity teacher
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Gion Antoni Caminada is a Swiss architect and professor of architecture at the ETH Zurich. He is known for his works in and around the Swiss village of Vrin, including the Stiva da morts mortuary. Many of Caminada's projects are built of wood in a minimalist style mixing modern design with traditional Swiss methods and materials.
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Lino Guzzella
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- university teacherengineerinternational forum participant
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Lino Guzzella, born in 1957, is a binational professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He has been a full Professor of Thermotronics in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at the institute for dynamic systems and control (IDSC) since 1999. In his research, Lino Guzzella works on modelling and model-assisted optimisation and control of energy technology and mechatronic systems.
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Bastien Girod
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- international forum participantpolitician
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Bastien Girod is a Swiss politician, sustainability researcher, corporate and industry advisor.
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Claude Bourdet
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- journalistFrench Resistance fighterwriter
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Claude Bourdet was a writer, journalist, polemist, and militant French politician.
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Pierre Weiss
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- university teacherphysicist
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Pierre-Ernest Weiss was a French physicist who specialized in magnetism. He developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism in 1907. Weiss domains and the Weiss magneton are named after him. Weiss also developed the molecular or mean field theory, which is often called Weiss-mean-field theory, that led to the discovery of the Curie–Weiss law. Alongside Auguste Piccard, Pierre Weiss is considered one of the first discoverers of the magnetocaloric effect in 1917.
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Walther Ritz
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- mathematicianphysicist
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Walther Heinrich Wilhelm Ritz was a Swiss theoretical physicist. He is most famous for his work with Johannes Rydberg on the Rydberg–Ritz combination principle. Ritz is also known for the variational method named after him, the Ritz method.
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Albert Heim
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- In 1869 graduated with Doctor of Sciences in natural science
- In 1871 graduated with postdoctoral degree in geophysics
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- geologistuniversity teachernon-fiction writer
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Albert Heim was a Swiss geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz.
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Costin Nenițescu
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Studied in 1920-1922
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacher
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Costin D. Neniţescu was a prominent Romanian chemist, and a professor at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He was a member of the Romanian Academy, a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, and a member of the Leopoldina Academy of Natural Scientists in Halle-Saale.
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Boris Pavlovich Belousov
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- biophysicistchemistphysicist
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Boris Pavlovich Belousov was a Soviet chemist and biophysicist who discovered the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction (BZ reaction) in the early 1950s. His work initiated the field of modern nonlinear chemical dynamics.
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Konrad Steffen
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- academicinternational forum participantuniversity teacherglaciologist
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Konrad "Koni" Steffen was a Swiss glaciologist, known for his research into the impact of global warming on the Arctic.
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Michael Heidelberger
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- chemistuniversity teacherimmunologist
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Michael Heidelberger was an American immunologist, often regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antigens, enabling him to show that antibodies are proteins. He spent most his early career at Columbia University and comparable time in his later years on the faculty of New York University. In 1934 and 1936 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1967 he received the National Medal of Science, and then he earned the Lasker Award for basic medical research in 1953 and again in 1978. His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Arthur Stoll
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- biochemistart collectoruniversity teacherchemist
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Arthur Stoll was a Swiss biochemist.
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Léonie Geisendorf
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- architect
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Léonie Geisendorf, née Kaplan, was a Polish-born, Swedish architect. She lived most of her professional life in Stockholm, Sweden. At the time of her death, she was living in Paris, France.
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Christian Mumenthaler
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- business executiveinternational forum participant
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Christian Mumenthaler is a Swiss citizen and current Group Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Re, a position he has held since 1 July 2016.
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Karl Moser
- Enrolled in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- 1878-1882 studied architecture
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- architectuniversity teacher
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Karl Moser was an architect from Switzerland.
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Alfred Heinrich Ilg
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- politicianengineerrailway engineer
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Alfred Heinrich Ilg was a Swiss engineer and First Minister of State to Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II. He was born in Frauenfeld, Switzerland and died in Zurich.
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Martin Bäumle
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- politician
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Martin Bäumle MP is a Swiss scientist and politician. He has been a member of the National Council since 2003. Originally a member of the Green Party of Switzerland, he founded the Green Liberal Party of the Canton of Zürich in 2004 and the national party in 2007. He was the first president of the national Green Liberal Party from 2007 to 2017.
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Rudolf Wolf
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- astronomermathematician
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Johann Rudolf Wolf was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots.
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Aline Trede
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- politician
- Biography
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Aline Trede is a Swiss-German politician who currently serves on the National Council (Switzerland) for the Green Party since 2018. She previously served one term between 2013 and 2015 and also on the City of Berne Parliament from 2009 to 2012.
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Michel Polak
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- architect
- Biography
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Michel Polak was a Belgian-Swiss architect.
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Hans von Halban
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- physicistnuclear physicist
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Hans Heinrich von Halban was a French physicist, of Austrian-Jewish descent.
