ETH Zurich

ETH Zurich (from its German name Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETHZ) is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland. It is commonly called the ETH or the Poly after its original name Polytechnikum.

Famous people

Nobel prize winners

Many of Switzerland's Nobel prize winners were or are associated

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with the ETH Zürich:

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• 1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Physics) — studied at the ETH
• 1913 Alfred Werner (Chemistry) — Professor at the ETH
• 1915 Richard Martin Willstätter (Chemistry) — Professor at the ETH
• 1918 Fritz Haber (Chemistry) — studied at the ETH
• 1920 Charles-Edouard Guillaume (Physics) — studied at the ETH
• 1921 Albert Einstein (Physics) — Student of mathematics at the ETH from 1896 to 1900 and Professor of theoretical physics at the ETH from 1912 to 1916
• 1936 Peter Debye (Chemistry) — Professor at the ETH
• 1938 Richard Kuhn (Chemistry) — Professor at the ETH from 1926 to 1929
• 1939 Leopold Ruzicka (Chemistry) — Professor at the ETH
• 1943 Otto Stern (Physics) — Senior lecturer at the ETH (1914)
• 1945 Wolfgang Pauli (Physics) — Professor at the ETH
• 1950 Tadeus Reichstein (Medicine) — studied at the ETH
• 1952 Felix Bloch (Physics) — studied at the ETH
• 1953 Hermann Staudinger (Chemistry) — Lecturer at the ETH from 1912 to 1926
• 1975 Vladimir Prelog (Chemistry) — Professor at the ETH
• 1978 Werner Arber (Medicine) — studied at the ETH
• 1986 Heinrich Rohrer (Physics) — together with Gerd Binning; Rohrer studied at the ETH
• 1987 Georg Bednorz und Alexander Müller (Physics) — studied both at the ETH
• 1991 Richard Ernst (Chemistry) — Professor at the ETH
• 2002 Kurt Wüthrich (Chemistry) — Professor at the ETH

Others

• Hendrik Petrus Berlage, architecture — studied at the ETH
• Max Frisch, architecture — studied at the ETH
• Herzog & de Meuron, architecture — both studied at the ETH and work since 1999 as professors at the ETH, received the Pritzker Prize in 2001
• Bernard Tschumi, architecture — studied at the ETH
• Niklaus Wirth, computer science, (since 1999 professor emeritus) received the Turing Award in 1984.