Sonja Buckley (June 13, 1918 – February 2, 2005[1]) was a Swiss-born virologist. She was the first person to culture Lassa virus, the causative agent of Lassa fever, a potentially deadly disease that originated in Africa.[2][3][4] Biography Sonja Grob was born in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1941, she married Dr. John J. Buckley, a pathologist who was also studying in Zürich. Sonja Buckley was awarded her medical degree in 1944 from the University of Zurich, and she was later a microbiology instructor there.[2] With her husband, she emigrated to the United States in 1947, as both of them had already arranged…
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Emma Jung (born Emma Marie Rauschenbach, 30 March 1882 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss Jungian analyst and author. She married Carl Jung, financing and helping him to become the prominent psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, and together they had five children. She was his “intellectual editor” to the end of her life.[1] After her death, Jung is said to have described her as “a Queen”. Early life Emma Rauschenbach was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Johannes Rauschenbach, the then owner of IWC Schaffhausen.[2] At the time of her marriage she was the second-richest heiress in Switzerland.[3]…
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Germaine Guex (April 17, 1904, in Arcachon, France – November 20, 1984, in Lausanne, Switzerland)[1] was a Swiss psychologist.[2][3][4] She was particularly known for her work on abandonment syndrome in psychoanalysis. Born in Arcachon, France, Guex achieved the French baccalauréat and studied at the Rousseau Institute in Geneva. In the 1930s, Guex established a pioneering medical-pedagogical service in Monthey, dedicated to the psychoanalytical treatment of children. Her monograph La névrose d’abandon (1950; English: Abandonment neurosis), later re-published in 1973 under the title Le Syndrome d’abandon, made her reputation international.[5] In it, she describes “abandonment neurosis” as a type of neurosis…
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Stefanie Martin-Kilcher (born 5 July 1945) is a Swiss archaeologist. She is Professor Emerita of Roman Provincial Archaeology at the University of Bern.[1] Biography Martin-Kilcher studied prehistory, early history, classical archaeology, and folk lore at the University of Basel. She received her doctorate from basel in 1973. Her thesis, on the Roman cemetery at Courroux was published as a 1976 monograph.[2] Between 1978 and 1991 she was the Editor of Archaeology of Switzerland magazine.[3] She completed her habilitation at the University of Bern in January 1991, becoming Professor of Roman Provincial Archaeology.[3] A Festschrift was published in her honor in…
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Susanne Bickel (born 1960, in Rome) is a Swiss Egyptologist. She studied Egyptology in Geneva and then worked at the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo and the Swiss Institute of Egyptian Antiquity. She has worked as an archaeologist on multiple sites in Middle and Upper Egypt. Since 2000 she has been a lecturer at the University of Freiburg and since 2006, professor of Egyptology at the University of Basel where she is an expert on Ancient Egyptian deities and demons.[1] Susanne Bickel’s research focuses on religion and Egyptian archaeology,[2] particularly the documentation of Egyptian temples. Bickel is director…
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Sophie Piccard (1904–1990) was a Russian-Swiss mathematician who became the first female full professor (professor ordinarius) in Switzerland.[1][2] Her research concerned set theory, group theory, linear algebra, and the history of mathematics.[1] Early life and education Piccard was born on September 27, 1904, in Saint Petersburg, with a French Huguenot mother and a Swiss father. She earned a diploma in Smolensk in 1925, where her father, Eugène-Ferdinand Piccard, was a university professor and her mother a language teacher at the lycée. Soon afterwards she moved to Switzerland with her parents, escaping the unrest in Russia that her mother, Eulalie Piccard,…
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Marguerite Gertrud Anna Henrici (22 February 1892, Basle, Switzerland – 28 July 1971, Bloemfontein, South Africa) was a Swiss-born South African plant physiologist.[1] She is the author of over 80 scientific papers on food value of South African grasses and veld types.[2] She was a member of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, the South African Biological Society, and an honorary member of the South African Association of Botanist.[3] She is commemorated in the genus names Neohenricia L. Bolus and Salsola henriciae Verd.[4] Early life and education Marguerite Gertrud Anna Henrici was born on 22 February 1892…
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Ruth Lüthi (née: Affolter; born 1947) is a Swiss academic and a former politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party and headed the public health and social affairs department of the Canton of Fribourg between 1991 and 2006. She was a member of the Council of the Fribourg Canton. Early life and education She was born in Grenchen, Switzerland, on 14 September 1947.[1] She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Bern in 1990.[1] Career Following her graduation from university Lüthi worked as a teacher from 1967 to 1978.[2] She was an assistant at the…
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Anna Maurizio (26 November 1900[1][2][3] – 24 July 1993)[4] was a Swiss biologist who studied bees. She worked for more than three decades in the Department of Bees at the Liebefeld Federal Dairy Industry and Bacteriological Institute, where she developed new methods for determining the amount of pollen in honey.[5] Life Maurizio was born in Zurich, the daughter of botanist and cultural historian Adam Maurizio. She studied at a gymnasium in Lviv, then graduated from the high school of agriculture in Dubliany (near Lviv) in 1923 and then in biology in 1927 in Lviv.[clarification needed] She began work at the…
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Catherine Kousmine (17 September 1904 in Hvalynsky, Russia – 24 August 1992 in Lutry, Switzerland) was a Russian physician who proposed an alternative cancer treatment. Kousmine devised a restrictive diet for treating many human ailments including multiple sclerosis and cancer. There is, however, no scientific evidence that it is effective.[1] Life Born in 1904 into a well-to-do family in Russia, Catherine Kousmine and her parents fled the country in 1916 before the Russian revolution, settling in Lausanne.[2] The young Catherine went to the Ecole Supérieure of Lausanne where she graduated in sciences. She then went on to medical school. Upon…