Marguerite Gertrud Anna Henrici (22 February 1892, Basle, Switzerland – 28 July 1971, Bloemfontein, South Africa) was a Swiss-born South African plant physiologist.[1] She is the author of over 80 scientific papers on food value of South African grasses and veld types.[2] She was a member of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, the South African Biological Society, and an honorary member of the South African Association of Botanist.[3] She is commemorated in the genus names Neohenricia L. Bolus and Salsola henriciae Verd.[4] Early life and education Marguerite Gertrud Anna Henrici was born on 22 February 1892…
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Sophie Schwartz is a Swiss neuroscientist who is a professor at the University of Geneva. She studies the neural mechanisms that underpin experience-dependent changes in the human brain. Early life and educationSchwartz is from Switzerland. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Geneva, where she majored in biology.[1] She moved to Lausanne as a graduate student, working toward a second bachelor’s degree in psychology.[1] She studied dreams through neurophysical investigations at the University of Lausanne.[2] After completing her doctorate, Schwartz joined the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher.[1] CareerSchwartz joined the faculty at the University of…
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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 Fribourg Canton. Early life and education She was born in Grenchen, Switzerland, on 14 September 1947.[1] She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Bern in 1990.[1] Career Following her graduation from university Lüthi worked as a teacher from 1967 to 1978.[2] She was an assistant at the…
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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] Life Maurizio was born in Zurich, the daughter of botanist and cultural historian Adam Maurizio. She studied at a gymnasium in Lviv, then graduated from the high school of agriculture in Dubliany (near Lviv) in 1923 and then in biology in 1927 in Lviv.[clarification needed] She began work at the…
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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] Life Born in 1904 into a well-to-do family in Russia, Catherine Kousmine and her parents fled the country in 1916 before the Russian revolution, settling in Lausanne.[2] The young Catherine went to the Ecole Supérieure of Lausanne where she graduated in sciences. She then went on to medical school. Upon…
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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 the Red Cross (ICRC) and was one of the first women to hold a senior position there. Family background and education Marguerite’s father Max van Berchem (1863–1921) was an orientalist and historian who undertook scientific expeditions to Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. He is known as a pioneer of Arabic epigraphy,…
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Claudia R. Binder (born in Montreal) is a Swiss, Canadian and Colombian environmental scientist working in the field of human-environment systems and sustainability s. Since March 2016 she has been a full professor the La Mobilière Chair on Urban Ecology and Sustainable Living at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and founding director of the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS)[1] at School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC)[2] of EPFL. Since January 2020 she has been serving as dean of ENAC at EPFL.[3] Early life and education Binder was born in Montreal, Canada, and…
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Aleksandra Radenovic (born in 1975 in Croatia) is a Swiss and Croatian biophysicist. Her research focuses on the development of experimental tools to study single-molecule biophysics. She is a professor of biological engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and head of the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology. Career Radenovic studied physics at the University of Zagreb, where she wrote her Master thesis on Raman spectroscopy of Beta-Carotene[citation needed]. She then joined Giovanni Dietler’s Laboratory of Physics of Living Matter, then located at University of Lausanne, and in 2003, she graduated with a PhD on cryo atomic force microscopy.[3][4]…
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Angelika Steger (born 1962)[1] is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research interests include graph theory, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms. She is a professor at ETH Zurich.[2] Education and career After earlier studies at the University of Freiburg and Heidelberg University, Steger earned a master’s degree from Stony Brook University in 1985.[2] She completed a doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1990, under the supervision of Hans Jürgen Prömel, with a dissertation on random combinatorial structures,[3] and earned her habilitation from Bonn in 1994. After a visiting position at the University of Kiel, she became a professor at…
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Nadia Magnenat Thalmann is a computer graphics scientist and robotician and is the founder and head of MIRALab at the University of Geneva. She has chaired the Institute for Media Innovation at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore from 2009 to 2021. Biography Thalmann received an MS in Psychology, an MS in Biology and a Master in Biochemistry at the University of Geneva. She obtained a PhD in Quantum Physics in 1977 from the same university. She started her career as an assistant professor at the University Laval in Canada, then became a professor at HEC, University of Montreal until 1988.…