Schaffhausen is a town with historic roots, a municipality in northern Switzerland, and the capital of the canton of the same name; it has an estimated population of 36,000 as of December 2016. It is located right next to the shore of the High Rhine; it is one of four Swiss towns located on the northern side of the Rhine, along with Neuhausen am Rheinfall, the historic Neunkirch, and medieval Stein am Rhein.
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics. By his restatement of Sadi Carnot's principle known as the Carnot cycle, he gave the theory of heat a truer and sounder basis. His most important paper, "On the Moving Force of Heat", published in 1850, first stated the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics. In 1865 he introduced the concept of entropy. In 1870 he introduced the virial theorem, which applied to heat.
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, determinants, and number theory. His name is occasionally written as Carolus Gustavus Iacobus Iacobi in his Latin books, and his first name is sometimes given as Karl.
Carl Gottfried Neumann was a German mathematician.
Marcel Grossmann was a mathematician and a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Grossmann was a member of an old Swiss family from Zurich. His father managed a textile factory. He became a Professor of Mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, today the ETH Zurich, specializing in descriptive geometry.
Albert Jakob Welti was a Swiss writer and painter.
Hanns von Meyenburg was a Swiss Pathologist.
Heinrich Eduard Schröter was a German mathematician, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner.
Emil Ermatinger was a Swiss professor for Germanic philology.
Ferdinand Rudio was a German and Swiss mathematician and historian of mathematics.
Karl Rudolf Fueter was a Swiss mathematician, known for his work on number theory.
Jakob Streit was a Swiss author, teacher and anthroposophist. Besides this he worked as musician and choirmaster as well as conductor and dramaturg
Jakob Messikommer was a Swiss archaeologist who among others discovered and researched the UNESCO serial site Wetzikon–Robenhausen.
Amsler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Christian Beyel (1854–1941) was a Swiss mathematician, professor in the Polytechnic of Zurich.
Carl Friedrich Geiser was a Swiss mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. He is known for the Geiser involution and Geiser's minimal surface.
Hermann Bleuler was a Swiss engineer and artillery officer in the Swiss army.
Adolf Kiefer was a Swiss mathematician, working mainly on geometry.
Laffon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Johann Jakob Burckhardt was a Swiss mathematician and crystallographer. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1936 in Oslo.
