• 20th Century - Physics

    Martha Christina Lux-Steiner

    26/04/2024 - By 

    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…

  • 21st Century - Physics

    Angelika Bischof-Delaloye

    26/04/2024 - By 

    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…

  • 21st Century - Physics

    Claudia de Rham

    25/04/2024 - By 

    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…

  • 20th Century - Physics

    Verena Meyer

    25/04/2024 - By 

    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…

  • 21st Century - Physics

    Henriette Saloz-Joudra

    25/04/2024 - By 

    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…

  • 21st Century - Physics

    Ursula Keller

    24/04/2024 - By 

    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…

  • 20th Century - Physics

    Ana Celia Mota

    16/04/2024 - By 

    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…