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2 unusual facts about Swiss American


Edgar Lorch

Edgar Raymond Lorch (July 22, 1907 – March 5, 1990) was a Swiss American mathematician.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed her theory of the five stages of grief.



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Albert Samuel Gatschet

Albert Samuel Gatschet (October 3, 1832, Beatenberg, Canton of Bern – March 16, 1907) was a Swiss-American ethnologist who trained as a linguist in the universities of Bern and Berlin, but later moved to the United States in order to study Native American languages, in which field he was a pioneer.

Andreas Burckhardt

Andreas Burckhardt (1986, Locarno) is a Swiss-American author and the great-nephew of artist Rudy Burckhardt.

Berthe Marti

Berthe Marie Marti (Born May 11, 1904 in Vevey, Switzerland - died June 4, 1995 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA) was a Swiss-American scholar and teacher of classical and medieval Latin.

Burckhardt

Rudy Burckhardt, 1914-1999, Swiss-American filmmaker and photographer

Penikese Island

In early 1873, Louis Agassiz, the famous Swiss-American naturalist, persuaded Anderson to give him the island as a site for and $50,000 to endow a school for natural history where students would study nature instead of books.

Suzanne Grossmann

Suzanne Grossmann (December 21, 1937 – August 19, 2010) was a Swiss-American actress, playwright and television writer, born in Basel, Switzerland.

Swiss American Historical Society

The society publishes the Swiss American Historical Society Review three times a year and meets annually, the location rotating between Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York.

Williamsburg Houses

The chief architect of the project was Richmond Shreve, and the design team of nine other architects was led by the pioneering Swiss-American modernist William Lescaze, whose Philadelphia Saving Fund Society building of 1928-32 was one of the first major International Style buildings in the United States.