Curated playlist
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
- Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein once spent his days examining patents for gravel sorters.
- Alfred KleinerAlfred Kleiner once sent back Einstein's dissertation for being too short. Einstein added one sentence and it passed.
- Carl JungFewer than about two dozen people had seen Carl Jung's red leather manuscript before September 2008.
- Heinrich Jacob GoldschmidtChemist Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt moved to Göttingen at 72 to join his son. The Nazis forced both men out.
- Hermann MinkowskiHermann Minkowski saw relativity as four-dimensional, with time and space intermingled.
- Hermann WeylMathematician Hermann Weyl fled Germany in 1933 after once refusing to leave. His wife was Jewish.
- Marcel GrossmannMarcel Grossmann introduced Einstein to the geometry he needed for general relativity.
- Jacob BurckhardtIn 1872, Jacob Burckhardt turned down Ranke's famous history chair at Berlin. He stayed in Basel.
- Peter DebyeA unit of measurement, a lunar crater and a minor planet all carry Peter Debye's name.
- Otto SternOtto Stern and Walther Gerlach fired silver atoms through a magnetic field in 1922. The atoms landed in two bands.