List of Swiss inventors and discoverers
The list of Swiss inventors and discoverers is a list of inventors and discoverers from Switzerland in alphabetical order by family name.
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A.
- Carl Roman Abt , inventor of the Abt system
- Jakob Amsler-Laffon , inventor of the polar planimeter
- Werner Arber , Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of restriction enzymes and their application in molecular genetics
- Aimé Argand , discoverer of the Argand lamp
B.
- Johann Jakob Balmer : Mathematical Law of the Balmer Series
- Otto Bayard : father of iodine prophylaxis
- Daniel Bernoulli : Bernoulli Effect
- Maximilian Bircher-Benner , inventor of modern muesli
- Felix Bloch , Nobel laureate, discoverer of the Bloch equations , Bloch sphere and Bloch function
- Johann Georg Bodmer , engineer
- Daniel Bovet , Nobel Prize Winner, discoveries related to synthetic compounds that inhibit the activity of certain substances in the body, and specifically for studies of their effects on the vascular system and skeletal muscles; Discovery of antihistamines that block neurotransmitter histamines.
- Jean Louis Burckhardt : Discoverer of the Nabatean city of Petra in southern Jordan and the Nubian temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt
- Jost Bürgi : inventor of the intermediate winding device ( Remontoir ) as well as the second cycle for clocks and creator of the logarithm table
- Jacques E. Brandenberger , inventor of the cellophane
D.
Henry Dunant , 1901
- Jakob Degen : Aviation pioneer
- Henry Dunant , Nobel Prize Winner, Co-Founder of the Red Cross
E.
- Albert Einstein (Germany / Switzerland / United States): Nobel Prize Winner (1921); theoretical physicist. His research on the structure of space and time as well as the nature of gravity significantly changed the physical worldview.
- Richard R. Ernst , groundbreaking contributions to the development of high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ( NMR )
- Leonhard Euler : discoverer of Euler's conjecture , Euler's gyroscopic equations and Euler 's equation of motion ; A large part of today's mathematical symbolism goes back to Euler (e.g. e , π , i , summation symbols ∑, f (x) as a designation of a function term ).
F.
- Jérôme Faist , invention of a high-power quantum cascade laser
- Antoine Favre-Salomon , watchmaker, developed a clock with musical tones
- Edmond H. Fischer , Nobel Laureate, Discovery of the mechanisms that control metabolic processes in organisms
G
- Hermann Geiger , inventor of a landing technique for snow slopes to rescue mountaineers in need
- Charles Édouard Guillaume , Nobel Prize Winner, for merits in the field of precision measurement in physics and for his discovery of the peculiarities of the steel / nickel joint
- Michael Graetzel , inventor of the Graetzel cell
- Gustav Guanella , inventor of a method for transmitting messages that are disguised with the help of control signals
H
- Walter Rudolf Hess , discoverer of the functional organization of the diencephalon for the coordination of the activity of internal organs
- Wilhelm His , discoverer of the microtome
- Albert Hofmann , discoverer of LSD
K
- Paul Karrer , Nobel Prize Winner, Research on Vitamins
- Emil Theodor Kocher , Nobel Prize Winner, research in physiology and pathology, inventor of the Kocher clamp
M.
- Henri Martin : Chemist, Glyphosate , 1950
- Hans Maurer : inventor of the shower toilet
- Georges de Mestral , inventor of Velcro
- Friedrich Miescher , discoverer of nucleic acid , DNA , 1868
- Max Morgenthaler , inventor of the Nescafé
- Karl Alexander Müller , Nobel Prize winner, discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials
- Paul Hermann Müller , discovery of the powerful effects of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods
N
- Jean-Daniel Nicoud , inventor of the Smaky computer system
P
- Paracelsus , discoverer of laudanum
- Roger Perrinjaquet , inventor of the hand blender
- Jean Samuel Pauly , inventions in the field of ammunition cartridges
- Jean Piaget , developer of genetic epistemology (empirical psychology / philosophy)
- Auguste Piccard , inventor of the bathyscaphe
- Alois Pollinger , inventor of the abseiling technique with double rope
- Vladimir Prelog (Nobel Prize), work on the stereoisomerism of organic molecules ; Co-discoverer of the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog Convention
R.
- Jacob Christoph Rad , inventor of the sugar cubes
- Tadeus Reichstein , discoverer of the Reichstein trial; Discoveries about the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and their biological effects
- Adolph Rickenbacher (1887–1976), USA / Switzerland - electric guitar (together with George Beauchamp )
- Niklaus Riggenbach , inventor of the Riggenbach rack railway system (ladder rack) and the counter-pressure brake
S.
- Martin Schadt , pioneer in the field of liquid crystal displays
- Hans Jakob Schmid , inventor of photochromic printing
- Jacob Schmidheiny , inventor of the process for the production of extruded interlocking tiles
- René Sommer , co-inventor of the computer mouse
T
- René Thury , electrical engineering pioneer . He was considered the "king of direct current" in the professional world
W.
- Alfred Werner (Nobel Prize), work on the bonding relationships of atoms in molecules , which has clarified older research areas and opened up new ones, especially in the field of inorganic chemistry
- Niklaus Wirth , inventor of the Pascal programming language .
- Kurt Wüthrich (Nobel Prize), structure elucidation of proteins using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Y
- Alexandre Émile Jean Yersin , doctor, discovered the bacterium Yersinia pestis , the causative agent of the plague , in 1894
Z
- Rolf M. Zinkernagel : (Nobel Prize), co-discoverer of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells
- Fritz Zwicky : he discovered the compact galaxies, in 1938 he was the first to hypothesize that supernova explosions are the result of a gravitational collapse, and for this purpose, together with Walter Baade, founded the theory that supernovae could produce neutron stars. Furthermore, in 1933 he was the first to apply the virial theorem to galaxy clusters