List of Swiss inventors and discoverers

The list of Swiss inventor and discoverer is a list of inventors and discoverers from Switzerland in alphabetical order of surname.

List

A

  • Carl Roman Abt invented the Abt system
  • Jakob Amsler -Laffon, inventor of the polar planimeter
  • Werner Arber (Nobel Prize ), co- discoverer of restriction enzymes and their application in molecular genetics.
  • Aimé Argand, discoverer of the Argand lamp.

B

  • Daniel Bernoulli: Bernoulli effect
  • Maximilian Bircher- Benner, inventor of the modern cereal
  • Felix Bloch, Nobel laureate, discoverer of the Bloch equations Bloch ball and Bloch function
  • Johann Georg Bodmer, engineering
  • Daniel Bovet (Nobel Prize ), discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the activity of certain substances in the body, and especially for studies of their effect on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles; Discovery of antihistamines, which block neurotransmitter histamine.
  • Jean Louis Burckhardt: discoverer of the Nabatean city of Petra in southern Jordan and the Nubian temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt
  • Jacques E. Brandenberger, inventor of the cellophane

D

  • Jakob Degen: aviation pioneer
  • Henry Dunant, (Nobel Prize ), co-founder of the Red Cross

E

  • Albert Einstein ( Germany / Switzerland / United States): Nobel Prize winner (1921 ); theoretical physicist. His studies of the structure of space and time and the nature of gravity significantly altered the physical world.
  • Richard R. Ernst, pioneering contributions to the development of high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ( NMR)
  • Leonhard Euler: discoverer of the Euler 's conjecture, the Euler equations centrifugal and Euler 's equation of motion; a large part of today's mathematical symbolism goes back to Euler (eg e, π, i, summation sign Σ, f ( x ) as the name of a function Termes ).

F

  • Jérôme Faist, invention of a high-performance quantum cascade laser
  • Antoine Favre -Salomon, watchmaker, developed a clock with music notes
  • Edmond H. Fischer (Nobel Prize ), the discovery of the mechanisms which control the metabolic processes in organisms

G

  • Charles Édouard Guillaume, (Nobel Prize ) contributions to the field of precision measurement in physics and for his discovery of the peculiarities of the Stahl-/Nickelverbindung
  • Michael Grätzel, inventor of the Grätzel cell
  • Gustav Guanella inventor of a method of transmitting messages that are disguised by means of control signals

B

  • Walter Rudolf Hess, the discoverer of the functional organization of the diencephalon for coordinating the activity of internal organs
  • Wilhelm His, discoverer of the microtome
  • Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD

K

  • Emil Theodor Kocher (Nobel Prize ), research in the physiology and pathology, inventor of the boiler terminal

M

  • Georges de Mestral, inventor of Velcro
  • Friedrich Miescher, discovered the nucleic acid, DNA, 1868
  • Max Morgenthaler, inventor of Nescafé
  • Karl Alexander Müller
  • Paul Hermann Müller, discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods

N

  • Jean -Daniel Nicoud, inventor of the computer system Smaky

P

  • Paracelsus, discoverer of laudanum
  • Roger Perrin Jaquet, inventor of the blender
  • Jean Samuel Pauly, inventions in the field of ammunition cartridges
  • Auguste Piccard, inventor of the bathyscaphe
  • Vladimir Prelog (Nobel Prize ), works on the stereoisomerism of organic molecules; Co-discoverer of the Cahn -Ingold -Prelog convention

R

  • Jacob Christoph Rad, inventor of the sugar cube
  • Tadeusz Reichstein, discoverer of the Reichstein process; Discoveries among the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects
  • Adolph Rickenbacher (1887-1976), USA / Switzerland - electric guitar (together with George Beauchamp )
  • Niklaus Riggenbach, the inventor of the Riggenbach rack railway system ( ladder rack ) and the counter -pressure brake

S

  • Martin Schadt, a pioneer in the field of liquid crystal displays
  • Jacob Schmidheiny inventor of the process for the production of Extruded interlocking
  • René Sommer, co-inventor of the computer mouse

T

  • René Thury, pioneer of electrical engineering. He was regarded in the professional world as "King of the direct current »

W

  • Alfred Werner (Nobel Prize ), works on the bonding of the atoms in the molecule, which he has cleared and opened up new areas of research elderly, particularly in the field of inorganic chemistry
  • Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of the programming language Pascal.
  • Kurt Wüthrich (Nobel Prize ), structure determination of proteins by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Z

  • Rolf M. Zinkernagel ( Nobel Prize ), co-discoverer of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells
  • Fritz Zwicky: he discovered the compact galaxies, presented in 1938 as first hypothesized supernova explosions are the result of a gravitational collapse, and founded for this purpose together with Walter Baade the theory that supernovae could produce neutron stars. Furthermore, he turned in 1933 as the first virial theorem to clusters of galaxies at
Bernoulli's principle Bloch wave Euler's sum of powers conjecture Wilhelm His, Sr. George de Mestral Jean-Daniel Nicoud Jakub Kryštof Rad Adolph Rickenbacker Counter-pressure brake Douglas Engelbart
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