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4 unusual facts about École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne


Aart de Geus

De Geus graduated with a masters degree in Electrical Engineering (1978) from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of technology), EPFL, Switzerland followed by a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA.

Autoscopy

Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, and Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, have reviewed some of the classical precipitating factors of autoscopie.

Peter Hammer

In 1986 he was given his first honorary doctorate, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; subsequently, he was given two more, by the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1998 and the University of Liège in 1999.

Roger Ainsworth

Among his other appointments Ainsworth is a Visiting Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.


Borosilicate glass

However, in 2008 a team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne were successful in forming borosilicate nanoparticles of 100 to 500 nanometers in diameter.

Monika Henzinger

She then became an assistant professor of computer science at the Cornell University, a research staff at Digital Equipment Corporation, an associate professor at the University of the Saarland, a director of research at Google, and a full professor of computer science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

René Sommer

Along with Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud and André Guignard, Sommer helped invent the computer mouse at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

Roberto Car

He was in 1973/74 a postdoc at the University of Milan, from 1977 to 1981 an assistant at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, from 1981 to 1983 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, from 1984 to 1990 associate professor for physics at SISSA in Trieste (in 1990/91 as full professor) and from 1991 to 1999 professor for physics at the University of Geneva (and director of the IRRMA of the ETH Lausanne).

Smaky

The Smaky is a line of mostly 8-bit personal computers and accompanying operating system developed by Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud and others at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland beginning in 1974.

Swiss Cancer Centre

Prof. George Coukos (also director of the Department of Oncology of the CHUV and of the Ludwig Centre for Cancer Research of the University of Lausanne) will be the director of the centre and Prof. Douglas Hanahan (also director of the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research of the EPFL) will be the vice-director.

The Swiss Cancer Centre (French: Centre suisse du cancer) of Lausanne is an institute bringing together research groups in oncology from the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), with the support of the ISREC Foundation.


see also

Bernard Moret

Moret was born in 1953 in Vevey Switzerland, and did his undergraduate studies at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, graduating in 1975.

Club Montagne AGEPoly

The Club Montagne de l'Agepoly (CMA) is an outdoors and mountaineering club at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Lausanne.

Krokus

CROCUS, a nuclear reactor operated by the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne