List of ETH Zurich people

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This is a list of people associated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

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Nobel Prize winners

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Albert Einstein, 1921
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John von Neumann, graduated in chemical engineering, ETH Zurich 1925

The names listed below are taken from the official record compiled by ETH Zurich. It includes only graduates of ETH Zurich and professors who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their achievements at ETH Zurich. [2]

Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Medicine

Other Nobel laureates directly affiliated with ETH Zurich

Other affiliates

Architects

Engineers

Mathematicians

Other fields

Leadership

Rector

President

See also

Related Research Articles

The year 1850 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of Zurich</span> Public university in Switzerland, founded 1833

The University of Zurich is a public research university located in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine which go back to 1525, and a new faculty of philosophy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rudolf Trümpy</span>

Rudolf Trümpy was a Swiss geologist, who was born in the small Swiss town of Glarus. He graduated from the ETH Zürich in the late 1940s with a thesis titled: “Der Lias der Glarner Alpen”. From 1947 to 1953 he spent his post-doctoral years in Lausanne before being appointed professor at ETH Zürich in 1953. He would remain there until 1986.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rudolf Grimm</span> Austrian physicist (born 1961)

Rudolf Grimm is an experimental physicist from Austria. His work centres on ultracold atoms and quantum gases. He was the first scientist worldwide who, with his team, succeeded in realizing a Bose–Einstein condensation of non-polar molecules.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Heinrich Friedrich Weber</span> German physicist (1843–1912)

Heinrich Friedrich Weber was a physicist born in the town of Magdala, near Weimar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Austrian Decoration for Science and Art</span> Austrian award

The Austrian Decoration for Science and Art is a state decoration of the Republic of Austria and forms part of the Austrian national honours system.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sarah Springman</span> British-Swiss triathlete, civil engineer, and academic

Dame Sarah Marcella Springman is a British-Swiss triathlete, civil engineer, and academic. She was educated in England and spent much of her career in Switzerland. She is a former rector of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and currently Principal of St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ETH Zurich University Archives</span>

The ETH Zurich University Archives are responsible for safeguarding, indexing and mediating documents belonging to ETH Zurich and the ETH Board. They also curate the private papers of scientists and societies with ties to ETH Zurich. Its holdings aid research on national and international academic, university and technical history. Biographical dossiers and other documents round off the archival holdings.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State</span> 1933 document signed by German academics

Bekenntnis der Professoren an den Universitäten und Hochschulen zu Adolf Hitler und dem nationalsozialistischen Staat officially translated into English as the Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State was a document presented on 11 November 1933 at the Albert Hall in Leipzig. It had statements in German, English, Italian, and Spanish by selected German academics and included an appendix of signatories. The purge to remove academics and civil servants with Jewish ancestry began with a law being passed on 7 April 1933. This document was signed by those that remained in support of Nazi Germany.

References

  1. ↑ Ed Regis (8 November 1992). "Johnny Jiggles the Planet". The New York Times . Retrieved 4 February 2008.
  2. ↑ "Die ETH Zürich" . Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "Neue ETH-Rektorin: Sarah Springman" (in German). 10vor10. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
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