Curated category
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
- Albert EinsteinWhen Albert Einstein was five and sick in bed, his father brought him a compass. The trembling needle, always pointing the same way, convinced the boy that…
- Alfred KleinerAlfred Kleiner received his PhD on the 24th of April 1874 from the University of Zurich. His thesis examined intermittent retinal stimulation under Johann…
- Carl JungCarl Gustav Jung was born on the 26th of July 1875 in Kesswil, a small village in the Swiss canton of Thurgau, the first child his parents would raise to…
- Heinrich Jacob GoldschmidtHeinrich Jacob Goldschmidt entered the world on the 12th of April 1857 in Prague, Austria-Hungary. He studied chemistry at Charles University during his…
- Hermann MinkowskiHermann Minkowski died of appendicitis on the 12th of January 1909 in Göttingen. He was forty-four years old. The mathematician who had quietly reshaped how…
- Hermann WeylWhenever Michael Atiyah turned his attention to a mathematical topic, he kept running into the same name. He found that Hermann Weyl had already been there…
- Marcel GrossmannMarcel Grossmann was born on the 9th of April, 1878, in Budapest, into a Jewish family that had deep roots in the Swiss city of Zurich.
- Jacob BurckhardtJacob Burckhardt once turned down the most prestigious history chair in Germany, the very seat held by his own teacher, Leopold von Ranke, at the University…
- Peter DebyePeter Debye was born in Maastricht in the Netherlands on the 24th of March 1884, and by the time he died on the 2nd of November 1966, his name had been…
- Otto SternOtto Stern, born on the 17th of February 1888 in Sohrau, in the German province of Silesia, became one of the most influential experimental physicists of the…