• 20th Century - Biology - Virology

    Sonja Buckley

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    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…

  • 20th Century - Psychology

    Emma Jung

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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…

  • 20th Century - Psychology

    Germaine Guex

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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…

  • 20th Century - Archaeology

    Stefanie Martin-Kilcher

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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…

  • 20th Century - Egyptology

    Susanne Bickel

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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…

  • 20th Century - Mathematics

    Sophie Piccard

    22/04/2024 - By 

    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…

  • 20th Century - Politics

    Ruth Lüthi

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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…

  • 20th Century - Biology

    Anna Maurizio

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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]…

  • 20th Century - Biology

    Catherine Kousmine

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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]…