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<html> <head> <title>University of Zurich</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> University of Zurich EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION Location: <a href="/geo/818/000069611/" class=proflink>Zurich, Switzerland</a> Founding Date: 1525/1833Enrollment: 23,500Official Website: <a href="http://www.unizh.ch/">http://www.unizh.ch/</a>STUDENTS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_student"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/774/000082528/">Louis Agassiz</a></td> <td><center>Paleontologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-May-1807</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1873</tt></td> <td>Ichthyologist at Harvard</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/080/000129690/">Konrad Bloch</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-2000</tt></td> <td>Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/507/000071294/">Max Born</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Dec-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jan-1970</tt></td> <td>Pioneer of quantum mechanics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/741/000087480/">Martin Buber</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1878</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jun-1965</tt></td> <td>Ich und Du</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/333/000087072/">Georg Cantor</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Mar-1845</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1918</tt></td> <td>Founder of set theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/960/000115615/">Max Frisch</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1991</tt></td> <td>Homo Faber</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/993/000167492/">Erich Gamma</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Design Patterns</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/271/000128884/">Walter Hess</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1973</tt></td> <td>Brain mapping, neurophysiological methods</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/613/000022547/">Albert Hofmann</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Apr-2008</tt></td> <td>Discovered LSD</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/117/000113775/">Robinson Jeffers</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jan-1962</tt></td> <td>Tamar and Other Poems</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/910/000031817/">Carl Jung</a></td> <td><center>Psychiatrist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jul-1875</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1961</tt></td> <td>Inventor of the collective unconscious</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/418/000100118/">Paul Karrer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1971</tt></td> <td>Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/460/000204845/">Florence Kelley</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1859</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1932</tt></td> <td>Founder of National Consumers League</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000170322/">Nicholas Kemmer</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Dec-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Oct-1998</tt></td> <td>Nuclear weapons and reactors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/185/000023116/">Elisabeth Kübler-Ross</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Aug-2004</tt></td> <td>On Death And Dying</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/793/000099496/">Lev Landau</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1968</tt></td> <td>Superfluidity of helium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/698/000091425/">Karl Landsteiner</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1943</tt></td> <td>Discovered blood typing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/634/000087373/">Rosa Luxemburg</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Mar-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-1919</tt></td> <td>Co-Founder, Communist Party of Germany</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/022/000119662/">Adolf Meyer</a></td> <td><center>Psychiatrist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1950</tt></td> <td>Commonsense Psychiatry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/244/000099944/">Walther Nernst</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jun-1864</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1941</tt></td> <td>Third Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/730/000097439/">Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1746</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1827</tt></td> <td>Swiss educational reformer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/359/000094077/">Jean Piaget</a></td> <td><center>Psychologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1980</tt></td> <td>Elaborated the stages of childhood</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/808/000399608/">Charles R. Ritcheson</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Feb-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-2011</tt></td> <td>British Politics and the American Revolution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/550/000071337/">Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1845</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1923</tt></td> <td>Discovered X-Rays</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/351/000023282/">Maximilian Schell</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Feb-2014</tt></td> <td>Judgment at Nuremberg</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/480/000131087/">Hamilton O. Smith</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/722/000140302/">Carl Spitteler</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1845</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Dec-1924</tt></td> <td>The Olympic Spring</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/430/000100130/">Artturi Virtanen</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Nov-1973</tt></td> <td>AIV method of fodder preservation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/208/000103896/">George Wald</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Apr-1997</tt></td> <td>Physiology of the retina</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/232/000099932/">Alfred Werner</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Dec-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1919</tt></td> <td>Coordination theory of chemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/781/000134379/">Eric F. Wieschaus</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jun-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Embryonic development of fruit flies</td> </tr> </table> TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_teacher"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/089/000094804/">Theodor Billroth</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1829</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1894</tt></td> <td>Viennese surgeon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/050/000098753/">Eugen Bleuler</a></td> <td><center>Psychiatrist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1939</tt></td> <td>Coined term schizophrenia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/866/000094584/">Johann Jakob Bodmer</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jul-1698</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1783</tt></td> <td>Von dem Wunderbaren in der Poesie</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/162/000025087/">Georg Büchner</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Oct-1813</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Feb-1837</tt></td> <td>Leonce and Lena</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/951/000100651/">Rudolf Clausius</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1822</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Aug-1888</tt></td> <td>Second Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/190/000099890/">Peter Debye</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Mar-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1966</tt></td> <td>Studied molecular structure, dipoles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/302/000022236/">Albert Einstein</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Mar-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Apr-1955</tt></td> <td>Theory of relativity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/271/000128884/">Walter Hess</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1973</tt></td> <td>Brain mapping, neurophysiological methods</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/279/000093000/">Paul Hindemith</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Nov-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1963</tt></td> <td>Mathis der Maler</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/910/000031817/">Carl Jung</a></td> <td><center>Psychiatrist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jul-1875</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1961</tt></td> <td>Inventor of the collective unconscious</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/418/000100118/">Paul Karrer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1971</tt></td> <td>Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/528/000099231/">Max von Laue</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1960</tt></td> <td>X-ray crystallography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/989/000099692/">K. Alex Müller</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Apr-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>High-temperature superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/308/000072092/">Erwin Schrödinger</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1961</tt></td> <td>Schr鰀inger's wave equation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/232/000099932/">Alfred Werner</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Dec-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1919</tt></td> <td>Coordination theory of chemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/002/000134597/">Rolf M. Zinkernagel</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>T-cells and antigens</td> </tr> </table> ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_administrator"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/271/000128884/">Walter Hess</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1973</tt></td> <td>Brain mapping, neurophysiological methods</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/418/000100118/">Paul Karrer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1971</tt></td> <td>Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=71413" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/085/000001082/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/85/1082/s1082.jpg" width=128> Atlanta Corridors of Power</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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