Othmar Ammann

Othmar Ammann

male, deceased (1965)
Othmar Herman Ammann, Hudson River, naturalized citizen of the United States, zurich, Bridge engineer, naturalized citizen…ethzurich
Othmar Herman Ammann (March 26 1879 - September 22 1965) was a renowned civil engineer whose designs include: *George Washington Bridge (opened...
Armand Borel

Armand Borel

male, deceased (2003)
G/P, G/H, parabolic subgroups, classifying space, solvable subgroup, solvable group…ethzurich
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,...
Carl Alfred Meier

Carl Alfred Meier

male
Psychologist, H.W. Maier, Zürichberg, Bürgholzli, Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Vienna, C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich…University of Zurich, ethzurich
Carl Alfred Meier was a Swiss psychiatrist, Jungian Psychologist and scholar. He became the first president of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich. A...
Paul Niggli

Paul Niggli

male, deceased (1953)
Dorsum Niggli, moon, University of Zurich, earth science, crystallography, Swiss…ethzurich, zurich
Paul Niggli was a Swiss crystallographer who was a leader in the field of X-ray crystallography. Niggli was born in Zofingen and studied at the...
Auguste Piccard

Auguste Piccard

male, deceased (1962)
physicist, ULB, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Free University of Brussels, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Auguste Antoine Piccard…ethzurich, zurich
Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer. Piccard and his twin brother Jean Felix were born in Basel, Switzerland....

Kārlis Ulmanis

male, deceased (1942)
Victim of Soviet repressions, tsar, World War II, World War I, President of Latvia, University of Nebraska…ethzurich
Kārlis Ulmanis (b. September 4, 1877 in Bērze, Latvia – d. September 20, 1942 in Krasnovodsk prison, Soviet Union) was the most prominent Latv...
David Ruelle

David Ruelle

male, 74 years old
Free University of Brussels alumni, Chaos theorist, statistical physics, mathematical physicist, Boltzmann Medal, strange attractor…ethzurich
David P. Ruelle is a Belgian-French mathematical physicist. He has worked on statistical physics and dynamical systems. With Floris Takens he...
Michel Plancherel

Michel Plancherel

male, deceased (1967)
Christian, mathematician, Swiss, zurich, algebra, mathematics…ethzurich
Michel Plancherel was a Swiss mathematician. He was born in Bussy (Fribourg, Switzerland) and obtained his diploma in mathematics from the...
Hans Jenny

Hans Jenny

male, deceased (1992)
University of Missouri–Columbia, University of Missouri–Columbia faculty, University of Missouri, pedologist, Pedology, The Soil Resource, Origin and Behaviour…ethzurich
Hans Jenny was a soil scientist and expert on pedology (study of soil resources), particularly the processes of soil formation. Hans Jenny was born...
Georg Lunge

Georg Lunge

male, deceased (1923)
German, Chemist, zurich, breslau, ethzurich, Chemische-technische Untersuchungs-Methoden
Georg Lunge (15 September 1839 - 1923) was a German chemist born in Breslau. He studied at Heidelberg (under Robert Bunsen) and Breslau, graduating...