Aletha Jauch Solter (born 1945) is a Swiss/American developmental psychologist who studied with Jean Piaget in Switzerland before earning a PhD in psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her specialist areas are attachment, psychological trauma, and non-punitive discipline. In 1990 she founded The Aware Parenting Institute, an international…
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Nicole Grasset
Nicole Grasset (18 April 1927 – 29 August 2009) was a Swiss-French medical virologist and microbiologist-epidemiologist. Grasset was the senior smallpox advisor for the South-East Asia Regional Office (SEARO) of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1971 through the end of the WHO smallpox eradication campaign.[1] Early life Grasset was…
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Florence Gschwend
Florence Gschwend is a Swiss chemical engineer and Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow at Imperial College London. She is the founder and CEO of Lixea[1] (formerly Chrysalix Technologies), a spin-out company that commercialises wood fractionation to enable a circular bioeconomy. Education and early career Gschwend was born in Switzerland.…
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Carolina Ödman-Govender
Carolina Ödman-Govender (German pronunciation: [karoˈliːnaː ˈœtman ˈgo:vəndɐ]) (1973 or 1974 – 15 November 2022[2]) was a Swiss physicist and academic who was Professor of Astrophysics at South Africa’s University of the Western Cape. She was awarded the 2018 International Astronomical Union Special Executive Committee Award for Astronomy Outreach, Development and…
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Helene Stähelin
Helene Stähelin (18 July 1891 Wintersingen – 30 December 1970 Basel) was a Swiss mathematician, teacher, and peace activist.[1] Between 1948 and 1967, she was president of the Swiss section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and its representative in the Swiss Peace Council.[2][3] Early life and…
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Marguerite Narbel-Hofstetter
Marguerite Narbel-Hofstetter (7 February 1918 – 2 June 2010) was a Swiss biologist and politician who served on the Grand Council of Vaud from 1970 until 1986. A member of the Liberal Party of Switzerland, Narbel became the first woman to serve as president of the council in 1981. BiographyMarguerite…
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Celine Frere
Celine Frere is a Swiss evolutionary biologist. In 2017, she was named one of Australia’s first “Superstars of STEM” by Science & Technology Australia.[1] She is known for co-founding USC’s Detection Dogs for Conservation initiative, training sniffer dogs to aid in research and conversation efforts around endangered and protected species.…
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Mira Oberholzer-Gincburg
Mira Oberholzer-Gincburg, (née Mira Gincburg, 13 January 1884 – 12 December 1949), was a Swiss medical doctor and psychoanalyst of Russian-Polish origin. A pioneer of psychoanalysis in general and child psychology in particular, she was a founding member of the Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis in 1919, and worked in Switzerland…
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Gerta Keller
Gerta Keller (born 7 March 1945) is a geologist and paleontologist whose work has focused on global catastrophes and mass extinctions. She has been a professor of geosciences at Princeton University since 1984 and received emeritus status in July 2020.[2] Keller contests the mainstream Alvarez hypothesis that the impact of…
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Susan M. Gasser
Susan M. Gasser (born 1955) is a Swiss molecular biologist. From 2004 to 2019 she was the director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, where she also led a research group from 2004 until 2021. She was in parallel professor of molecular biology at the…