- Ernst Fehr
Ernst Fehr is an Austrian economist. He is director of the Institute for Empirical Economics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research covers the areas of the evolution of human cooperation and sociality, in particular fairness, reciprocity and bounded rationality. He is also well-known for his important contributions to the new field of neuroeconomics, as well as to behavioral finance and experimental economics. - Albert Einstein
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, space, matter, energy, and gravity but he also was a supporter of Zionism and peaceful living. Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm Germany, and spent most of his youth living in Munich, where his family owned a small electric machinery shop. He attended schooling in Munich, which he found unimaginative and dull. - Rolf Pfeifer
Rolf Pfeifer Rolf Pfeifer received his masters degree in physics and mathematics and his Ph.D. in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. He spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie-Mellon University and at Yale University. Since 1987 he has been a professor of computer science at the Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, and director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. - Dominique de Quervain
Professor Dominique de Quervain is a research professor in the psychiatry department at the University of Zurich. He is currently known for his pioneering research into the use of glucocorticoids (cortisol) in the treatment of phobias. He is understood to have found a link between cortisol and forgetting. - Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875, Kesswil – June 6, 1961, Küsnacht) was a Swiss psychiatrist, influential thinker, and founder of analytical psychology. Jung's unique and broadly influential approach to psychology has emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, world religion and philosophy. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician for most of his life, … - Albert Hofmann
Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008) was a Swiss scientist best known for synthesizing Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann authored more than 100 scientific articles and wrote a number of books, including LSD: My Problem Child. - Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Rolf Martin Zinkernagel (January 6, 1944 in Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland) is Professor of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich. Together with the Australian Peter Doherty he received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells. With this he became the 24th Swiss Nobel Laureate. - Max von Laue
Max Theodore Felix von Laue (October 9, 1879 in Pfaffendorf, near Koblenz - April 24, 1960 in Berlin) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. He was staunchly and openly in opposition to National Socialism. In addition to his scientific endeavors with contributions in optics, crystallography, quantum theory, superconductivity, and the theory of relativity, … - Josh Bongard
Josh Bongard received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from McMaster University, Canada, his Masters degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He served as a postdoctoral associate under Hod Lipson in the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at Cornell University from 2003 to 2006. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Vermont. - Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner (December 12, 1866 - November 15, 1919) was a Swiss chemist who was 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 in fact the only one prior to 1973. He was born in 1866 in Mulhouse, Alsace (which was then part of France, … - Alfred Kleiner
Alfred Kleiner was Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Zürich, and was Albert Einstein's doctoral advisor or "Doktorvater." Initially Einstein's advisor was H. F. Weber. However, they had a major falling out, and Einstein chose to switch to Kleiner. - Walter Burkert
Walter Burkert (born Neuendettelsau, Bavaria, February 2, 1931), a scholar of Greek mythology and cult, is an emeritus professor of classics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and also has taught in the United Kingdom and the United States. He has influenced generations of students of religion since the 1960s, combining in the modern way the findings of archaeology and epigraphy with the work of poets, historians, and philosophers. - Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus E. Wirth (b. February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. - Guerino Mazzola
Guerino Mazzola is a Swiss mathematican, musicologist, and jazz pianist. He graduated at the University of Zürich in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Crystallography and completed his PhD in Mathematics in 1971. In 1980, he habilitated in Algebraic Geometry and Representation theory. In 2000, he was awarded the medal of the Mexican Mathematical Society. In 2003, he habilitated in Computational Sciences at the University of Zürich. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. was a Swiss-born psychiatrist and the author of the groundbreaking book "On Death and Dying", where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler-Ross model. Kübler-Ross was born in Zürich, Switzerland, one of a set of identical triplets. She graduated from the University of Zürich medical school in 1957. She moved to the United States in 1958 to work and continue her studies in New York. - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer. He was born in Zürich. His father died when he was young, and he was brought up by his mother. At the University of Zürich he associated himself with Lavater and the party of reform. His earliest years were spent in schemes for improving the condition of the people. The death of his friend Bluntschli turned him from politics, however, and induced him to devote himself to education. - Chandana Paul
Chandana Paul received her Bachelors in Brain and Cognitive Science (1996) and Computer Science (1998), and Masters in Computer Science (1998) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She performed her Masters research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab with Rodney Brooks, on the advancement of Mars rover technology. Following this, she moved to Zurich, Switzerland to perform doctoral research with Rolf Pfeifer at the Artificial Intelligence Lab, … - Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (November 30 1817-November 1, 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, and was also a prominent German politician, … - James Hillman
James Hillman (1926-) is a psychologist, considered to be one of the most original of the 20th century. Trained at the Jung Institute in Zurich, he developed archetypal psychology (polytheistic myth as psychology). Hillman is a prolific writer and international lecturer as well as a private practitioner. James Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1926. He served in the US Navy Hospital Corps from 1944-1946, … - Walter Rudolf Hess
Walter Rudolf Hess (March 17, 1881 - August 12, 1973) was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs. He shared the prize with Egas Moniz. Hess was born in Frauenfeld. He received his medical degree from the University of Zurich in 1906 and trained as surgeon and ophthalmologist. - Stefan Seeger
Stefan Seeger (b. 1962) studied chemistry at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg and at the Technical University of Berlin. In 1992 he attained a doctorate in chemistry in Heidelberg. Subsequently, Seeger led the Department of Biophysical Chemistry at the Physicochemical Institute at the University of Heidelberg, where he was appointed a scientific assistant later. Between 1988 to 1992 he studied marketing and management at the University of Hagen. - Erwin Fues
Erwin Richard Fues (January 17, 1893 in Stuttgart, Germany - 1970 in Germany) was a German theoretical physicist who made contributions to atomic physics and molecular physics, quantum wave mechanics, and solid-state physics. - Jakob Kellenberger
Jakob Kellenberger is a Swiss diplomat and the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). He studied French and Spanish literature as well as linguistics in Zürich, Tours and Granada and gained a doctorate from the University of Zürich. Later, he was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel. In 1974, he started his diplomatic career with a position in the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. - Ludwig Binswanger
Ludwig Binswanger (April 13, 1881 -- 1966) was a Swiss psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of existential psychology. His grandfather (also named Ludwig Binswanger) was the founder of the "Bellevue Sanatorium" in Kreuzlingen, and his uncle Otto Binswanger was a professor of psychiatry at the University of Jena. - Paul de Man
Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 - December 21, 1983) was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard in the late 1950s. He then taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Zurich, before ending up on the faculty in French and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he was considered part of the Yale School of deconstruction. - Gerold Bührer
Gerold Bührer is a Swiss politician and member of the National Council since 1991. Bührer presided the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD) in 2001/2002. He was member of the parliament of the Canton of Schaffhausen from 1982 to 1991. From 1991 to 2000, Bührer was head of Corporate Treasury and Executive Committee member of Georg Fischer AG (CFO). Bührer is currently a member of the board of directors of Swiss Life (Vice Chairman), Georg Fischer AG, Bank Sal. Oppenheim jr. - Hashim Thaci
Hashim Thaci , 39, was sworn in as Kosovo's prime minister on January 9th, 2008, nearly two months after his Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) won the November 17th parliamentary elections, marking its first victory at the polls since the 1998-1999 conflict in the province. He replaced Agim Ceku in the post. Thaci vowed to quickly steer Kosovo to independence from Serbia and to ensure that the rights of all minority groups living in the province will be respected. - Karl Moser
Karl Moser (August 10, 1860-February 28, 1936) is an architect from Switzerland. Among his works include the design for the University of Zurich. - Sam Ratulangi
Dr. Gerungan Saul Samuel Yacob Ratulangi or Ratu Langie (November 5, 1890 - June 30, 1949), usually known as Sam Ratulangi, was a Minahasa politician from North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The son of Jozias Ratulangi and Augustina Gerungan, both from wealthy, well-respected Minahasa families, Sam Ratulangi was born in Tondano, North Sulawesi, at the time a part of the Dutch East Indies. - Robinson Jeffers
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10 1887-January 20 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement. - M. Carey Thomas
M(artha) Carey Thomas (January 2, 1857-December 2, 1935) was an American educator, suffragist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College. Carey Thomas, as she preferred to be called, was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the daughter of James Carey Thomas and Mary Whitall Thomas. Her family included many prominent Quakers, including her uncle and aunt Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, … - John Bates Clark
John Bates Clark (26 January 1847 - 21 March 1938) was an American neo-classical economist. He was one of the pioneers of the marginalist revolution and opponent to the Institutionalist school of economics, and spent most of his career teaching at Columbia University. Clark was born and raised in Providence, R. I. and graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts at the age of 25. - Yoko Tawada
Yōko Tawada is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master's degree in contemporary German literature. She received her doctorate in German literature at the University of Zurich. - Richard Willstätter
Richard Martin Willstätter was a Jewish-German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Willstätter invented paper chromatography independently of Mikhail Tsvet. Willstätter was born in Karlsruhe in Baden. He went to school there and, when his family moved, he attended the Technical School in Nuremberg. - Carl Alfred Meier
Carl Alfred Meier was a Swiss psychiatrist, Jungian Psychologist and scholar. He became the first president of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich. As successor to Carl Jung, he held the Chair of Honorary Professor of Psychology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1949. Later, co-founded the Clinic and Research Center for Jungian Psychology, Zürichberg. Professor Meier was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. In 1924 he entered University of Zürich. - Albert Heim
Albert Heim was a Swiss geologist. Born at Zürich, he was educated at Zürich and Berlin universities. Very early in life he became interested in the physical features of the Alps, and at the age of sixteen he made a model of the Tödi group. This came under the notice of Arnold Escher von der Linth, to whom Heim was indebted for much encouragement and geological instruction in the field. In 1873 he became professor of geology in the polytechnic school at Zürich, … - Patrick Meier
Patrick Meier is a Swiss figure skater. He is a multiple Swiss national champion. He has represented Switzerland at the European Figure Skating Championships, the World Figure Skating Championships, and the 1998 Winter Olympics, where he placed 22nd. Meier was the first Swiss skater to perform a triple axel in competition, which he accomplished at the 1995 Karl Schäfer Memorial. He studied law at the University of Zürich. - Rudolf Wolf
Johann Rudolf Wolf was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots. Wolf was born in Fällanden, near Zurich. He studied at the universities of Zurich, Vienna, and Berlin. Encke was one of his teachers. Wolf became professor of astronomy at the University of Bern in 1844 and director of the Bern Observatory in 1847. In 1855 he accepted a chair of astronomy at both the University of Zurich and the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. - Eduard Schweizer
Eduard Schweizer (1913-2006) was a Swiss New Testament scholar who taught at the University of Zurich for an extended period. He wrote a number of influential books, many translated into English, including: *Jesus (1971) *The Good News According to Mark ISBN 0-8042-0250-8 *The Good News According to Matthew *The Good News According to Luke ISBN 0-664-22361-3 *The Church as the Body of Christ, 1964 *Church Order in the New Testament, 1979, … - Edmundo Murray
Edmundo Murray, is a writer, born in a family with Argentine, Colombian, Irish and Swiss origins. Murray studied in Argentina, the United States and Switzerland and holds an M.A. in literature from the University of Geneva. Doctoral candidate at the University of Zurich (Romanisches Seminar). Editor at WTO Publications, the in-house publisher of the World Trade Organization.
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