Hermann Weyl

Hermann Weyl

male, deceased (1955)
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...
Luc Bondy

Luc Bondy

male, 61 years old
Luc Bondy (born 17 July 1948 in Zurich) is a Swiss theater and opera director.
Peter Voser

Peter Voser

male (Netherlands)
Peter Voser has spent by far the bulk of his career at Royal Dutch Shell. But the 50-year-old Swiss citizen's most dramatic moments probably remain...
Ingo Potrykus

Ingo Potrykus

male, 75 years old
Ingo Potrykus - retired since April 1999 - was full Professor of Plant Sciences, specifically of Biotechnology of Plants, at the Institute of Plant...
Karel Appel

Karel Appel

male, deceased (2006)
Karel Appel was a Dutch painter and sculptor, born in Amsterdam. He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten there from 1940 to 1943 and...

Gwyneth Jones

female, 73 years old
Dame Gwyneth Jones is a Welsh soprano. Dame Gwyneth studied music at the Royal College of Music, London, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena...
Alfred Werner

Alfred Werner

male, deceased (1919)
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...
Peter Sauber

Peter Sauber

male, 66 years old
Peter Sauber was born in Zurich, Switzerland on October 13 1943. He is famous in motor-racing circles for being the team principal and owner of the...

Peter Brugger

male
Swiss neuroscientist Peter Brugger of the University Hospital in Zürich has come up with a new theory on "ghosts" and "doppelgängers" (A do...
Manfred Honeck

Manfred Honeck

male
Manfred Honeck (born 1958 in Austria) is an Austrian conductor, the son of Otto and Frieda Honeck, from a family of nine children. As a youth, he...