Nathalie Bosson is a Swiss Egyptologist, Coptologist, and archaeologist, born in 1963. A teacher at the University of Geneva and at the École du Louvre and the Catholic University of Paris, she is generally regarded as one of the most prominent living experts in the study of the Coptic language. Biography She was born in 1963. After completing her gymnasium studies in 1982 in Geneva, she pursued studies in Egyptology, Coptic, English, Hebrew, and patristics at the University of Geneva, concluding in 1988. She defended her doctoral thesis (“The ‘Milanese’ variety of the Middle Egyptian Coptic dialect: Dialectal analysis accompanied by the complete re-edition of P. Mil. Copto”) in 2002 under the supervision of Rodolphe Kasser.[2] This dialect later remained one…
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Julia K. Steinberger (born 1974) is Professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Lausanne.[1][4] She studies the relationships between the use of resources and performance of societies. She is an author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report, contributing to the report’s discussion of climate change mitigation pathways.[5] Education and early life Steinberger, daughter of Nobel laureate in Physics Jack Steinberger, studied science at the Collège de Saussure in Switzerland, where she was awarded the de Saussure prize in 1993. Steinberger moved to the United States for her graduate degree, working at Brown University on the cosmic microwave background.[6] She earned her PhD studying ultracold atoms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[7] She worked in the centre for ultracold atoms with Thomas Greytak and Daniel Kleppner,[2] developing…
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Maria Gugelberg von Moos (1836–1918) was a Swiss botanist and floral artist. Growing up amidst the natural beauty surrounding Salenegg Castle, she developed an early interest in natural history, and later botany. She studied botany extensively in middle age, systematically collecting and studying plants.[1] Biography Maria was born 6 February 1836 in Maienfeld, Graubünden. She was the oldest daughter and one of eight children born to Ulysses Gugelberg von Moos and Elisabeth Jecklin von Hohenrealta from Domleschg. Her father was a civil engineer who had been involved in the construction of roads, waterworks and the first railway line to connect Shur with Sargans.[1][2] Early years Maria attended the local…
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= Anna Barbara Reinhart (12 July 1730 – 5 January 1796), was a Swiss mathematician. She was considered an internationally respected mathematician of her era. Biography Anna Barbara Reinhart was the third child and first daughter of Councilor Salomon Reinhart (1693 – 1761) and Anna Steiner.[1] Her childhood was overshadowed by an accident when she fell off her horse at a wedding party, which caused her to be confined her to her bed for significant periods of time.[2] Her physician, Dr. Johann Heinrich Hegner, however, noticed her aptitude for mathematics and began to teach her.[3] Henceforth, she studied mathematics using the books of Leonhard…