Paul Scherrer

Paul Scherrer

male, deceased (1969)
physicist, Swiss, Nuclear physicist, gottingen, eth zurich, MemberoftheETHZurich
Paul Scherrer was a Swiss physicist. He was born in Herisau, Switzerland. He studied at Göttingen, Germany, before becoming a lecturer there. L...

James Massey

male, 75 years old
University of Notre Dame, MemberoftheETHZurich, idea, Ph.D., Erdős number 2, Berlekamp-Massey algorithm…Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, eth zurich, University of Notre Dame alumni
James Lee Massey (born in 1934 in Wauseon, Ohio) is an information theorist and cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH...

Xuejia Lai

male
computer scientist, International Data Encryption Algorithm, cryptographic hash function, block cipher, Erdős number 3, Xidian University…MemberoftheETHZurich, eth zurich
Xuejia Lai is a cryptographer, currently a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His notable work includes the design of the block cipher...
Hermann Weyl

Hermann Weyl

male, deceased (1955)
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, Relativists, philosophy, Number theorist, Differential geometer, logic…zurich, MemberoftheETHZurich, University of Göttingen, The Mathematical Intelligencer
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich and then Princeton, he is closely i...
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

male, deceased (1879) (ULM, Germany)
genius, Nobel Prize in Physics, theory of relativity, German, smart, E=mc²…special theory of relativity, general theory of relativity, probabilistic interpretation of quantum theory, principle of relativity, Time Person of the Century
This German born physicist is considered one of the world's greatest thinkers in history. Not only did he shape the way people think of time,...
Simon Ammann

Simon Ammann

male, 28 years old
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, From switzerland, sapporo, Olympic gold medalist, Schindellegi, Holmenkollen ski festival…Ski jumper at the 1998 Winter Olympics, Ski jumper at the 2002 Winter Olympics, MemberoftheETHZurich, eth zurich, Ski jumper at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Simon Ammann (born June 25, 1981 in Grabs) is a Swiss ski jumper. He grew up in Unterwasser where his parents still live. He currently lives in...
Hermann Minkowski

Hermann Minkowski

male, deceased (1909)
gottingen, Aleksotas, Relativists, Russian Empire, From Kaunas, kaunas…theory of relativity, MemberoftheETHZurich, geometry of numbers
Hermann Minkowski (June 22, 1864 in Aleksotas/Russian Empire (today Kaunas, Lithuania), – January 12, 1909 in Göttingen) was a Lithuanian-born Ger...
Demetrios Christodoulou

Demetrios Christodoulou

male, 58 years old
Princeton University, MemberoftheETHZurich, American Mathematical Society, Cal Tech, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Bôcher Memorial Prize…eth zurich, california institute of technology, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Demetrios Christodoulou (b. October 19, 1951) is a Greek mathematical physicist, well known in the field of general relativity for his proof,...

Gisbert Wüstholz

male
mathematician, eth zurich, MemberoftheETHZurich, Ph.D., number theory, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
Gisbert Wüstholz is a German mathematician who obtained his Ph.D. from the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in 1977. His contributions are m...
Georg Cantor

Georg Cantor

male, deceased (1918)
mathematics, transfinite number, Lutheran, set theory, Finitism, ordinal number…MemberoftheETHZurich, Founder of set theory
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (March 3, 1845, St. Petersburg, Russia - January 6, 1918, Halle, Germany) was a German mathematician. He is...