List of well-known personalities at ETH Zurich

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This is a list of personalities from ETH Zurich .

Nobel Prize Winner

Albert Einstein, 1921
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945
Kurt Wüthrich, 2005

According to official information from ETH Zurich, 21 Nobel Prize winners are associated with the university. The list only contains ETH graduates and professors who have been recognized for their research work at ETH Zurich.

Nobel Price for physics

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Medicine

Other Nobel Prize winners that can be associated with ETH:

Professors and research assistants

Gottfried Semper, architect
  • Jakob Ackeret (1898–1981), 1931–1967 Professor of Aerodynamics. Introduced the Mach number for supersonic speeds, creator of the relativistic rocket theory and inventor of the variable pitch propeller.
  • Lars Valerian Ahlfors (1907–1996), professor of mathematics, winner of the Fields Medal in 1936.
  • Alfons Baiker (* 1945), professor of technical chemistry, important catalysis researcher
  • Hans Boesch (1926–2003), 1970 ETH adjunct for transport planning, HTL civil engineering technician and writer. Has dealt with technical civilization and its costs in numerous novels (e.g. “Das Gerüst”, 1960).
  • Armand Borel (1923–2003), professor of mathematics 1955–1957 and 1983–1986
  • Hermann Burger (1942–1989), 1974–1989 private lecturer in German language and literature. Writer, analyzed in “The Artificial Mother” (1982), among others, the ETH.
  • Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888), 1855–1867 professor of physics. Formulated the first and second law of thermodynamics (1850 and 1857) and coined the term “entropy”.
  • Karl Culmann (1821–1881), 1855–1881 professor of engineering. Pioneer of iron construction and torrent control. Revolutionized civil engineering with his main work "Die Graphische Statik" (1866).
  • Richard Dedekind (1831–1916), 1858–1862 professor of mathematics. Author of numerous papers on abstract algebra, algebraic number theory, group theory, ring theory and set theory. First introduced the real numbers exactly using Dedekind's cut .
  • Beno Eckmann (1917–2008), 1948–1984 Professor of Mathematics. Pioneering work in algebraic topology, category theory, and group theory.
  • Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994), 1979–1991 Professor of Philosophy of Science. With “Against Method” (1974) fundamentally questioned the self-image of increasing knowledge advances from a postmodern perspective.
  • Fritz Fischer (1898–1947), 1933–1947 professor of technical physics. Invented at the Department of Industrial Research (AfiF) a. a. a television projection process ( eidophor ), founder of the Contraves company.
  • Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849–1917), professor of mathematics 1875–1892
  • Marcel Grossmann (1878–1936), Professor of Mathematics 1907–1927
  • Albert Heim (1849–1937), 1873–1911 professor of geology. Theoretician of mountain building and very popular explorer of the alpine world. Sat down u. a. for animal and landscape protection, cremation and equal rights for women.
  • Heinz Hopf (1894–1971), professor of mathematics 1931–1965
  • Adolf Hurwitz (1859-1919), professor of mathematics 1892-1919
  • Eduard Imhof (1895–1986), 1925–1965 Professor of Topography and Cartography. He set the mapping of the terrain to an unprecedented level internationally and shaped the world of the Swiss with his school atlases.
  • Otto Jaag (1900–1978), 1945–1970 professor of hydrology, wastewater treatment and water protection. Director of EAWAG, water protection pioneer. The construction of sewage treatment plants in Switzerland is largely due to its public effectiveness.
  • Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961), 1933–1941 private lecturer in psychology, 1935 adjunct professor. Founder of "Analytical Psychology" as a further development of Freudian psychoanalysis and creator of the concept of "archetypes".
  • Rudolf Kálmán (1930–2016), electrical engineer and mathematician
  • Gustav Adolf Kenngott (1818–1897) was Professor of Mineralogy from 1856–1893. Director of the Poly 1875–1881.
  • Ernst Laur (1871–1964), 1908–1935 professor of agricultural management. Founder and director of the farmers' association (1897), agricultural politician who tried to maintain Swiss agriculture through targeted modernization.
  • Hans Künzi (1924–2004), Professor of Mathematics, (1970) Government Councilor of the Canton of Zurich , (1971) National Councilor
  • Hans Leibundgut (1909–1993), eminent forest scientist, representative of the near-natural free style silviculture and pioneer of jungle research, was professor of silviculture from 1940–1979
  • Felix Lincke (1840–1917), Professor of Mechanical Engineering (1868–1872)
  • Christian Menn (1927–2018), 1971–1992 Professor of Structural Analysis and Design. Was considered the most important Swiss bridge builder of his time.
  • Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909), Professor of Mathematics 1896–1902
  • Jürgen Moser (1928–1999), Professor of Mathematics 1980–1995
  • Adolf Muschg (* 1934), since 1970 professor of German language and literature. Writer.
  • George Pólya (1887–1985), Professor of Mathematics 1914–1940
  • Eugène Rambert (1830–1886), professor of French literature 1860–1881
  • Franz Reuleaux (1829–1905), 1856–1864 professor of mechanical engineering. Systematised mechanical engineering with “The Constructor” (1861) and “Theoretical Kinematics” (1875). Was significantly involved in the development of the Otto engine.
  • Roland Ris (* 1939), 1976-2004 professor of German language and literature
  • Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), 1972–1974 visiting professor of architecture, won the 1990 Pritzker Prize
  • Heinz Rutishauser (1918–1970), mathematician, 1962–1970 professor of computer science. Computer pioneer.
  • Jean Rudolf von Salis (1901–1996), 1935–1968 professor of history in French. Written radio reports on the world situation during the Second World War and analyzes of current affairs, e. B. “Difficult Switzerland” (1968).
  • Walter Schädelin (1873–1953), 1924–1940 professor of silviculture. Eminent forest scientist, creator of the elite thinning as an educational enterprise of the highest value .
  • Karl Schmid (1907–1974), 1944–1974 professor of German language and literature, expert on national military defense, leading science politician, was an important voice as a liberal-conservative intellectual; B. with “Uneasiness in the Small State” (1963).
  • Hermann Amandus Schwarz (1843–1921), professor of mathematics 1869–1875
  • Gerold Schwarzenbach (1904–1978), 1955–1973 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, did pioneering work with his work on EDTA .
  • Gottfried Semper (1803–1879), 1855–1871 professor of architecture. Built the opera house of Dresden and designed the ETH main building.
  • Eduard Stiefel (1909–1978), 1942 private lecturer for higher mathematics, 1943 full professor for the same subject, from 1953 for applied mathematics, computer pioneer , reactivated Konrad Zuses Z4 and built the ERMETH , the electronic calculating machine of the ETH, one of the first computers in Europe.
  • Aurel Stodola (1859–1942), 1892–1929 professor of mechanical engineering. Globally recognized expert for steam and gas turbines, shaped generations of mechanical engineers and formulated a “world view from the point of view of the engineer” (1931).
  • Friedrich Traugott Wahlen (1899–1985), 1943–1951 Professor of Crop Production. Expert for national supply in World War II (“Plan Wahlen”), 1949–1958 director of the UN food organization FAO, 1959–1965 Federal Councilor (BGB).
  • Hermann Weyl (1885–1955), 1913–1930 professor of higher mathematics. Outstanding mathematician in the fields of function theory, algebra, differential geometry, analysis and number theory
  • Niklaus Wirth (* 1934), 1968–1999 professor for computer science and computer science. Globally recognized pioneer of the computer age, invented the programming languages Pascal (1970), Modula-2 and Oberon and one of the first personal computers " Lilith " (1979/80).

Graduates

Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856–1934)
John von Neumann around 1952

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nobel Prize Winner. ethz.ch, accessed on July 19, 2014 .