• 20th Century - Physics

    Martha Christina Lux-Steiner

    Martha Christina Lux-Steiner, (née Steiner; December 18, 1950, Bern), is a Swiss physicist. From 1995 to 2016 she was the first female tenured professor in the department of physics at the FU Berlin. Lux-Steiner holds a Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. Life and Works Early yearsMartha Steiner grew up…

  • 20th Century - Mathematics

    Viviane Baladi

    Viviane Baladi (born 23 May 1963) is a mathematician who works as a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Originally Swiss, she has become a naturalized citizen of France.[1] Her research concerns dynamical systems. Education and career Baladi earned master’s degrees in…

  • 20th Century - Pharmacology

    Françoise Roch-Ramel

    Françoise Roch-Ramel (née Ramel; 20 September 1931 – 26 June 2001)[1] was a Swiss pharmacologist and a leading expert on the renal transport of organic anions and cations, especially uric acid. Life and work Born to Edwin Ramel[2] and raised in Château-d’Œx, Switzerland, her major research focus was the renal…

  • 19th Century - Arts

    Marguerite-Isabelle Naville

    Marguerite-Isabelle Naville (née de Pourtalès; 1852–1930) was a Swiss artist, photographer and writer. After marrying the Egyptologist Édouard Naville in 1873, she accompanied him on 14 archaeological trips to Egypt, meticulously recording his finds in photographs and drawings. Her extensive diaries and correspondence provide detailed descriptions of life in Egypt…

  • 20th Century - Biochemistry

    Gertrud Johanna Woker

    Gertrud Johanna Woker (16 December 1878 – 13 September 1968) was a Swiss suffragette, biochemist and toxicologist, and peace activist. She wrote for over twenty years itemizing the dangers of chemical substances on the human body. She campaigned against the use of poison gas in warfare. Early life Woker was…

  • 21st Century - Chemistry

    Ursula Röthlisberger

    Ursula Röthlisberger is a professor of computational chemistry at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She works on density functional theory using mixed quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical methods. She is an associate editor of the American Chemical Society Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation and a fellow of the American Association for…

  • 21st Century - Astronomy

    C. Marcella Carollo

    C. Marcella Carollo worked as a professional astronomer for 25 years between 1994 and 2019. Her scientific career was ended by the ETH Zürich who, following accusations that she had bullied students, made her the first Professor to be dismissed at ETH Zurich[1] in the 165 years of its history.…

  • 21st Century - Sociology

    Min Li Marti

    Min Li Marti (born 1 June 1974 in Bern) is a Swiss sociologist, historian, publisher and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Early life and career Min Li Marti was born in Bern as the daughter of her refugee Chinese mother and a Swiss father, and grew…

  • 21st Century - Electrical Engineering

    Gabriela Hug-Glanzmann

    Gabriela Hug-Glanzmann (born 1979)[1] is a Swiss electrical engineer and an associate professor and Principal Investigator of the Power Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich within the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.[2] Hug studies the control and optimization of electrical power systems with…

  • 21st Century - Sociology

    Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka

    Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (born: 20 July 1956) is a university professor in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany.[1] She is a former Pro-Vice-Rector at Bielefeld University and former Dean of the Faculty of Sociology at the University.[2] Early life and education Pfaff-Czarnecka was born in Warsaw, Poland to Janina…