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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[edit] Nobel Prize winners
The names listed below are taken from the official record compiled by the ETH. It includes only graduates of the ETH and professors who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their achievements at ETH. [1]
[edit] Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (graduate)
- 1920 Charles-Edouard Guillaume (graduate)
- 1921 Albert Einstein (graduate and professor)
- 1943 Otto Stern (lecturer)
- 1945 Wolfgang Pauli (professor)
- 1952 Felix Bloch (graduate)
- 1986 Heinrich Rohrer (graduate)
- 1986 Gerd Binnig (professor)
- 1987 Georg Bednorz (graduate)
- 1987 Karl Alexander Müller (graduate)
[edit] Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1913 Alfred Werner (professor)
- 1915 Richard Martin Willstätter (professor)
- 1918 Fritz Haber (graduate)
- 1936 Peter Debye (professor)
- 1938 Richard Kuhn (professor)
- 1939 Leopold Ruzicka (professor)
- 1953 Hermann Staudinger (lecturer)
- 1975 Vladimir Prelog (professor)
- 1991 Richard Ernst (professor)
- 2002 Kurt Wüthrich (professor)
[edit] Nobel Prize in Medicine
- 1978 Werner Arber (graduate)
- 1950 Tadeus Reichstein (graduate)
Other Nobel Laureates directly affiliated with the ETH include
- 1968 Har Gobind Khorana (medicine)
- 1968 Lars Onsager (chemistry)
[edit] Other affiliates
[edit] Architects
- Hendrik Petrus Berlage, architect (student of the ETH)
- Santiago Calatrava, architect (student of the ETH)
- Max Frisch, architect (student of the ETH)
- Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (Herzog & de Meuron), architects (students of the ETH, professor at the ETH since 1999, received the Pritzker Prize in 2001)
- Gottfried Semper, architect (Professor at the ETH)
- Bernard Tschumi, architect (student of the ETH)
[edit] Engineers
- Othmar Ammann, civil engineer (student of the ETH)
- Hans Albert Einstein, civil engineer (student of the ETH)
- Karl Culmann, structural engineer (Professor at the ETH)
- Christian Menn, structural engineer (student of the ETH, Professor at the ETH)
- Jan A. Rajchman, electrical engineer (student of the ETH)
- Rudolf Kalman, electrical engineer, mathematician (Professor at the ETH)
- Jakob Ackeret, aeronautical engineer (student of the ETH, Professor at the ETH)
[edit] Mathematicians
- Armand Borel, mathematician, (student of ETH, Professor at the ETH)
- Georg Cantor, mathematician (student of the ETH)
- Richard Dedekind, mathematician (Professor at the ETH)
- Heinz Hopf, mathematician (Professor at the ETH)
- Adolf Hurwitz, mathematician (Professor at the ETH)
- Marcel Grossmann, mathematician (student of the ETH, Professor at the ETH)
- Philippe Kahn, mathematician, entrepreneur, inventor (student of the ETH)
- Mileva Marić, mathematician, (student of the ETH)
- Hermann Minkowski, mathematician (Professor at the ETH)
- Jürgen Moser, mathematician (Professor at the ETH)
- John von Neumann, mathematician, computer scientist (student of the ETH)
- Hermann Amandus Schwarz, mathematician (Professor at the ETH)
- Eduard Imhof, cartographer (Student of the ETH, Professor at the ETH)
- George Pólya, mathematician (Professor at the ETH)
- Hermann Weyl, mathematician (Professor at the ETH)
Individual | Profession | Affiliation with ETH |
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Konrad Osterwalder | mathematician, physicist | Student, Professor |
Robert Schrader | mathematician, physicist | Student |
Jürg Fröhlich | mathematician, physicist | Student, Professor |
Demetrios Christodoulou | mathematician, physicist | Professor |
[edit] Other fields
- François Diederich, chemist (Professor at the ETH)
- Carl Gustav Jung, psychologist, (Professor at the ETH)
- Rudolf Clausius, physicist (student of the ETH)
- Valentine Telegdi, physicist (student of the ETH, Professor at the ETH, received the Wolf Prize in 1991)
- Fritz Zwicky, astronomer, (student of ETH, received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1972)
- Jacob Burckhardt, historian (Professor at the ETH)
- Paul Feyerabend, philosopher (Professor at the ETH)
- Auguste Piccard, physicist, inventor, explorer (student of the ETH, Professor at the ETH)
- Niklaus Wirth, computer scientist (Professor at the ETH since 1968, received the Turing Award in 1984)