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16 unusual facts about ETH Zürich


ALR Piranha

After the Swiss government had canceled the FFA N-20 and the order of 100 FFA P-16, took the Swiss aviation industry and the ETH Zurich a last attempt for their own Swiss fighter aircraft.

Caryophyllene

In a study conducted by Jürg Gertsch et al. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), beta-caryophyllene was shown to be selective agonist of cannabinoid receptor type-2 (antiinflammatory effects in mice.

EiffelStudio

The Eiffel community actively participates in its development; a list of open projects is available from the Origo site, hosted at ETH Zurich (see "external links"), together with the source code base for check-out, discussion forums etc.

Ethernut

Beside these, the Nut/OS operating system is used as base for the BTNode Sensor network ETH Zurich.

The research group for distributed systems of the ETH Zurich has developed a distributed Sensor network with nodes based on AVR.

FFA Diamant

The FFA Diamant (English: Diamond) is a family of Swiss high-wing, T-tailed, single-seat, FAI Standard Class and Open class gliders that was designed by engineering students under supervision of Professor Rauscher at the ETH Zurich and manufactured by Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein AG (FFA) of Altenrhein, Switzerland.

International Data Encryption Algorithm

In cryptography, the International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA), originally called Improved Proposed Encryption Standard (IPES), is a symmetric-key block cipher designed by James Massey of ETH Zurich and Xuejia Lai and was first described in 1991.

JGraph

JGraph is a graph drawing open source software component written in the Java programming language; started by Gaudenz Alder as a University project in 2000 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

LeanXcam

The open source project is kept alive by a large community which is supported by the development portal of ETH Zurich.

Lloyd Noel Ferguson

While affiliated with Howard University, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1953 and an NSF grant in 1960 that allowed him to travel to the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark, and to ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Manfred Morari

Manfred Morari is a Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich.

Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour

He travelled on the continent, gave conferences in Belgium and in 1856 settled down as professor of French literature at the Federal Polytechnic Institute Zurich, today the ETH Zurich.

Posnansky/Fronius PF-1 White Knight

The PF-1 was initially constructed by Posnansky in Switzerland in 1963, while he was a student at ETH Zurich there.

QR algorithm

The LR algorithm was developed in the early 1950s by Heinz Rutishauer, who worked at that time as a research assistant of Eduard Stiefel at ETH Zurich.

The Pagan Queen

In 2010 Vanguard Cinema made a co production deal with the Swiss video on demand provider Viewster and the Disney research lab at the ETH Zurich to turn the film into 3D.

Urbane Künste Ruhr

A lot of the projects of Urbane Künste Ruhr are co-productions with partner institutions, such as Regionalverband Ruhr, Emschergenossenschaft, Schauspielhaus Bochum, ETH Zurich, PACT Zollverein, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Ringlokschuppen Mülheim, and many more.


Adiabatic quantum computation

Tests performed by researchers at USC, ETH Zurich, and Google show that as of now, there is no evidence of a quantum advantage.

Artur Popławski

He started his study at Imperial University of Warsaw (with a Russian–language) in 1879, and moved to ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) in 1884.

Common rail

The common rail system prototype was developed in the late 1960s by Robert Huber of Switzerland and the technology further developed by Dr. Marco Ganser at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, later of Ganser-Hydromag AG (est.1995) in Oberägeri.

Dolf Rieser

In 1917, he studied at École Polytechnique, Zürich, obtaining a diploma in agricultural engineering, then from 1918-22 obtained a doctorate in biological science at the University of Lausanne.

Frank Schimmelfennig

Frank Schimmelfennig (born 1963 in Bad Marienberg, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a professor of European politics at the Center for Comparative and International Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

Kajona

The framework is used by public institutes such as the University of Kassel, the ETH Zürich and a lot of small and middle-sized companies around Europe and all over the world as in South-Africa.

Marco Keiner

From 2000 to 2007, Keiner was senior research assistant at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development at ETH Zurich and senior lecturer for Geography at the University of Innsbruck, where he obtained his habilitation in 2005.

Open access mandate

Among the universities that have adopted open-access mandates for faculty are Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University College London, Queensland University of Technology, University of Minho, University of Liege and ETH Zürich.

Paul Jaccard

Paul Jaccard (18 November 1868 in Sainte-Croix - 9 May 1944 in Zurich) was a professor of botany and plant physiology at the ETH Zurich.

Rainer Schulin

Rainer Schulin (* July 22, 1952) is a German zoologist, forest scientist and professor of soil protection at the ETH Zurich.

Research Centre for East European Studies

Furthermore international networks exist with institutions in the USA (e.g. Hoover, Harvard and the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick) and Western Europe (e.g. ETH Zürich, the University of Amsterdam and Cambridge University).

Rudolf Grimm

From 1986 to 1989 he was a post-graduate researcher at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), then went on to the Institute of Spectroscopy of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Troitsk near Moscow for half a year.

Solar Wind Composition Experiment

The SWC was proposed and designed by a Swiss team headed by Johannes Geiss of the University of Bern and Peter Eberhardt of the Swiss Institute of Technology.