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Notable Alumni of ETH Zurich
Albert Einstein (1901) - Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
Wolfgang Pauli (1918) - Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Exclusion Principle.
Heinrich Rohrer (1960) - Nobel Prize in Physics for his design of the scanning tunneling microscope.
Kurt Wüthrich (1964) - Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the 3D structure of biological macromolecules in solution.
Serge Haroche (1972) - Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.
Jacques Dubochet (1973) - Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.
August Paul von Wassermann (1890) - Developed the Wassermann test for syphilis.
Ernst Haeckel (1852) - Influential biologist and philosopher, known for his work on evolution and ecology.
Max Born (1907) - Nobel Prize in Physics for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction.
Friedrich Miescher (1868) - Discovered nucleic acids, which led to the identification of DNA.
