Marguerite Augusta Gautier-van Berchem (born Marguerite Augusta Berthout van Berchem; 11 April 1892 – 23 January 1984) was a Swiss archaeologist and art historian from a patrician family, who specialised both in early Christian art and early Islamic art. She was also an active member of the International Committee of…
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Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach
Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach (born 1 January 1947) is a Swiss biologist and was the first female director of ETH Zürich.[1] Life and work Wunderli-Allenspach was born in 1947 in Niederuzwil in the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. She graduated with the master’s degree in biology at ETH Zurich in 1970,…
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Tina Keller-Jenny
Tina Keller-Jenny (born June 17, 1887, in Schwanden, Switzerland, died October 25, 1985, in Geneva) was a Swiss physician and Jungian psychotherapist who witnessed firsthand the development of analytical psychology during its formative years.[1] Biography Tina Keller was the daughter of Swiss industrialist Conrad Jenny, and grew up at the…
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Ana Celia Mota
Ana Celia Mota (born 1935) is a retired Argentine-American condensed matter physicist specializing in phenomena at ultracold temperatures, including superfluids and superconductors. She is a professor emerita at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.[1] Education and careerMota was born in 1935 in Argentina, and is a US citizen.[2] She studied physics at…
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Alice Miller
Alice Miller (born Alicja Englard[1][verification needed]; 12 January 1923 – 14 April 2010) was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual. Her book The Drama of the…
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Lotte Loewe
Lotte Luise Friederike Loewe (7 November 1900–unknown) was a German chemist known for her published research in organic chemistry.[1][2] Loewe was born in Breslau (then part of Germany and now called Wroclaw) to Helene (Druey) Loewe.[3] She received her doctorate in chemistry from the University of Breslau (now the University…
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Grete Kellenberger-Gujer
Grete Kellenberger-Gujer (1919–2011) was a Swiss molecular biologist known for her discoveries on genetic recombination and restriction modification system of DNA. She was a pioneer in the genetic analysis of bacteriophages and contributed to the early development of molecular biology.[1][2] Biography After earning her matura in classics at the Töchterschule…
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Nathalie Bosson
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…
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Katharina Mangold-Wirz
Katharina Maria Mangold-Wirz, née Wirz, (born Basel 23 May 1922 – died Basel 22 November 2003) was a Swiss marine biologist and malacologist, who worked at Université Pierre et Marie Curie’s Laboratoire Arago in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France.[1] Mangold-Wirz was born in Basel on 23 May 1922 to Eduard Wirz (1891–1970), a…
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Marie-Louise von Franz
Marie-Louise von Franz (4 January 1915 – 17 February 1998) was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar, known for her psychological interpretations of fairy tales and of alchemical manuscripts. Early life and education Marie-Louise Ida Margareta von Franz was born in Munich, Germany, the daughter of a colonel in the…