Jakob Nüesch (biologist)
Jakob Nüesch (born November 8, 1932 in Balgach , Canton St. Gallen , † February 4, 2016 ) was a Swiss biochemist . From 1990 to 1997 he was President of the ETH Zurich .
Life
Jakob Nüesch grew up in Balgach in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley. He studied agricultural engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), where he graduated in 1958 as an agricultural engineer (dipl. Ing. Agr. ETH) and then in 1960 at the Institute for Special Botany with a dissertation in mycology and phytopathology as a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . After graduating in 1961, Nüesch began working in the chemical / pharmaceutical industry at Ciba-Geigy in Basel in the fields of microbiology and biotechnology. Between 1987 and 1990 he was head of the research department in the pharmaceutical division of Ciba-Geigy and a member of the board of directors of Ciba-Geigy.
His scientific work took place in Canada, the USA and Germany. For many years he was a lecturer at the newly founded Biozentrum of the University of Basel . In 1972 he completed his habilitation in microbiology at the University of Basel, where he was appointed associate professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel in 1978. On September 1, 1990, he was elected President of ETH Zurich by the Swiss Federal Council and held the office until 1997.
Nüesch was married to Elena Julietta Schaller from 1960.
Memberships and mandates
- Member of the University Council of the University of Zurich
- Federal ethics committee for genetic engineering in the non-human area
- Member of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ), Geneva, from 1997
- Swiss Study Foundation Fund for talented young people, Zurich
- Max Schmidheiny Foundation at the University of St. Gallen
- Academia Engelberg Foundation , Engelberg OW
- Association Glion Colloquium, Geneva
- Avina Foundation, Freienbach SZ
- Alliance of Global Sustainability (AGS), founding member
- Solidago AG, Bern
- Nestec SA, Vevey VD
- Humabs Holding GmbH, Zug
- Humabs BioMed SA, Bellinzona TI
Honors
- Honorary doctorate (Dr. hc) from the ETH Lausanne
- Honorary member of the Society of Former Polytechnicians GEP (1996)
Fonts (selection)
- Scientific work
- Nüesch, Jakob: Social expectations of the polyans . In: The future begins in the head . University publisher at the ETH Zurich 1994, pp. 3–20, ISBN 3-7281-2111-8 .
- Contribution to Glion-Colloquium 2002 ( Memento from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Short biography prepared by ETH Zurich
- Commercial register and economic information
- Lino Guzzella : ETH Zurich says goodbye to Jakob Nüesch. In: ETH Zurich from February 10, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Obituaries of Jakob Nüesch In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from 9./10. February 2016.
- ↑ a b c Christoph Wehrli: On the death of Jakob Nüesch. ETH management with a big view. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from February 8, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nuesch, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Balgach |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th February 2016 |