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 in Eastern Switzerland from 1952. She attended the gymnasium at the cantonal school St. Gallen. From 1970 to 1975 she studied physics and mathematics at the ETH Zürich and completed her foundational studies at the Institute for Biomedical Technology,[1] with a diploma on the subject of computed tomography. Subsequently, she…
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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 mathematics and computer science in 1986 from the University of Geneva.[1] She stayed in Geneva for her doctoral studies, finishing a Ph.D. in 1989 under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Eckmann, with a dissertation concerning the zeta functions of dynamical systems.[2] She worked at CNRS beginning in 1990, with a leave…
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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 excretion of drugs and other xenobiotics. She was a professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Lausanne, where she was employed in the early 1960s as an assistant of Professor George Peters.[3] From 1975 to 1990, Roch-Ramel was an associate professor at the University of…
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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 born on 16 December 1878 to “Old Catholic” theology and history professor Philipp Woker.[1] She came from a well-educated family as besides her father being a professor, her maternal grandfather taught history.[2] Woker was keen to continue her studies but her father sent her to Erfurt to learn to cook.…
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Aletha Jauch Solter (born 1945) is a Swiss/American developmental psychologist who studied with Jean Piaget in Switzerland before earning a PhD in psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her specialist areas are attachment, psychological trauma, and non-punitive discipline. In 1990 she founded The Aware Parenting Institute, an international organization with certified instructors in many countries. She has written six books and led workshops for parents and professionals in 18 countries[1] Her work combines attachment parenting principles with an understanding of the impact of stress and trauma, and it can help families who are struggling with sleep, discipline, and…
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Nicole Grasset (18 April 1927 – 29 August 2009) was a Swiss-French medical virologist and microbiologist-epidemiologist. Grasset was the senior smallpox advisor for the South-East Asia Regional Office (SEARO) of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1971 through the end of the WHO smallpox eradication campaign.[1] Early life Grasset was the daughter of a famous Swiss microbiologist. She was born in Garches. She is the cousin of doctor Derville Michel. She grew up in South Africa. After studying medicine, she worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.[2] At age 20, she wrote a ‘Plan of Life,’ her life’s mission statement…
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Helene Stähelin (18 July 1891 Wintersingen – 30 December 1970 Basel) was a Swiss mathematician, teacher, and peace activist.[1] Between 1948 and 1967, she was president of the Swiss section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and its representative in the Swiss Peace Council.[2][3] Early life and scientific work She was one of twelve children of the parson Gustav Stähelin (1858–1934)[4] and his wife Luise, née Lieb. In 1894, the family moved from Wintersingen to Allschwil. Helene Stähelin attended the Töchterschule Basel and the Universities Basel and Göttingen. In 1922, she became teacher of mathematics and natural…
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Marguerite Narbel-Hofstetter (7 February 1918 – 2 June 2010) was a Swiss biologist and politician who served on the Grand Council of Vaud from 1970 until 1986. A member of the Liberal Party of Switzerland, Narbel became the first woman to serve as president of the council in 1981. BiographyMarguerite Narbel was born on 7 February 1918 in the city of Lausanne in Vaud.[1] Her father Jean-Louis, who was the chief physician at a local hospital, died two years after her birth.[2] Narbel attended the University of Lausanne, graduating in 1941 with a degree in natural science.[1] After receiving an…
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Mira Oberholzer-Gincburg, (née Mira Gincburg, 13 January 1884 – 12 December 1949), was a Swiss medical doctor and psychoanalyst of Russian-Polish origin. A pioneer of psychoanalysis in general and child psychology in particular, she was a founding member of the Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis in 1919, and worked in Switzerland and the United States as a child analyst. Early life Mira Gincburg was born on 13 January 1884[1] to Dr. Rafael Saveliev and Ravka Salmanowa Gordin, a Jewish couple, in Dinaburg, now in Latvia. Her father passed away when Gincburg was thirteen. She completed her schooling in Łódź and moved…
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Gerta Keller (born 7 March 1945) is a geologist and paleontologist whose work has focused on global catastrophes and mass extinctions. She has been a professor of geosciences at Princeton University since 1984 and received emeritus status in July 2020.[2] Keller contests the mainstream Alvarez hypothesis that the impact of the Chicxulub impactor, or another large celestial body, directly caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Keller maintains that such an impact predates the mass extinction and that Deccan volcanism and its environmental consequences were the most likely major cause, but possibly exacerbated by the impact.[3][4] Considered a leading authority on catastrophes…