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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Angelika Bischof-Delaloye is a former emeritus professor at the University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland.[1][2] Career From 1998 to 2009, Bischof-Delaloye was a full professor at the Nuclear Medicine Department at the University Lausanne, and the Department Head of Nuclear Medicine at Lausanne University Hospital.[3] She served on the European Board of Nuclear Medicine in 2006.[4] In 2011, she wrote the editorial article for European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (EJNMMI) to introduce the open-access journal called European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Research (EJNMMI Res)[5] in the area of basic, translational and clinical research in…
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Claudia de Rham is a Swiss theoretical physicist working at the interface of gravity, cosmology and particle physics. She is based at Imperial College London. She was one of the UK finalists in the Physical Sciences and Engineering category of the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in 2018 for revitalizing the theory of massive gravity, and won the award in 2020. Early life and education de Rham was born in Lausanne.[1] She completed her undergraduate studies in France, receiving an engineering degree in physics at the École Polytechnique in Paris in 2000.[2] She received a master’s degree in Physics from…
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Verena Meyer (4 June 1929 – 21 July 2018) was a Swiss nuclear physicist and former President of the University of Zurich. She was the first woman elected to serve as president of the Swiss Physical Society. Early life Meyer was born to academic parents in 1929. Her father, Karl Meyer, was a professor of history at the University of Zurich and her mother, Alice Meyer, was a lawyer.[1] Her father died when she was 20 years old.[2] Career She originally entered medical school, but eventually switch to physics at the University of Zurich.[3] She was influenced to make the…
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Henriette Saloz-Joudra (1855–1928) was a Russian-born physician, the first woman to open a private medical practice in Geneva, Switzerland. Biography She was born Henriette Joudra in 1855 in Vitebsk, the Russian Empire (now Belarus), to a family of landowners, Russian-Polish aristocrats.[1][2] She began her schooling in Saint Petersburg with the encouragement of an uncle, the surgeon Nikolay Pirogov (1810-1881), who vocally supported female education in the science and medicine. She went on to graduate as a physician from the University of Geneva.[3] In 1883, a few months after she and her fiancé graduated from medical school, she married Charles-Eugène Saloz.…
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Ursula Keller (born 21 June 1959) is a Swiss physicist. She has been a physics professor at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland since 2003 with a speciality in ultra-fast laser technology, an inventor and the winner of the 2018 European Inventor Award by the European Patent Office.[1] Career Ursula Keller grew up in a working-class family.[2] After graduating as a physics engineer in 1984 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, she continued her studies at Stanford University, where she obtained a master’s degree in applied physics in 1987, and then continued with a doctorate in physics obtained in…
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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 the Balseiro Institute in Argentina, where she earned a licenciate in 1960,[3] and became a doctoral student of John C. Wheatley.[1][4] Her research with him concerned the heat capacity of liquid Helium-3.[5] After earning her doctorate in 1967,[3] she worked for eight years in the Department of Physics and Institute…