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Swiss IOC member Marc Hodler, head of the coordination committee overseeing the organization of the 2002 games, accused that a group of members of the IOC had taken bribes since the 1990 bidding process for the 1996 Olympic games.
Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943), Swiss and French physician and bacteriologist
Andreas Bischoff-Ehinger (20 November 1812, Basel – 29 July 1875, Basel) was a Swiss entomologist
Arthur Dunkel (August 26, 1932 - June 8, 2005) was a Swiss (Portuguese-born) administrator.
The President of the Swiss Bishops Conference, Norbert Brunner, has claimed that all Swiss bishops are in favour of married priests.
Edo Bertoglio (born 1951), Swiss photographer and film director
In 1934, Swiss physical chemist Werner Kuhn successfully derived a thermal equation of state for rubber molecules using Boltzmann's formula, which has since come to be known as the entropy model of rubber.
In the summer of 1930 in Rome he was painted by his friend the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862-1947).
Bruno Maag (born 1962) is a Swiss type designer and founder of type design company Dalton Maag.
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.
With a view to using the building for art exhibitions during Luxembourg City's year as European Cultural Capital in 1995, the Swiss artist Urs Raussmüller of Schaffhausen's Hallen für Neue Kunst was charged with adapting the casino into an exhibition space for a limited period by creating substantially more hanging space than could be provided by the walls in the various rooms.
It was originally written by Oliver Kastl and offered by Swiss company Elaborate Bytes, but due to changes in European copyright law, they were forced to take it off the market.
The former president of U.S. operations for Davidoff, a Swiss maker of luxury goods including premium Cuban cigars, praised Connecticut shade tobacco as "A nice Connecticut wrapper" and "…very silky, very fine. From a marketing point of view, it is considered at the moment to be one of the best tasting and looking wrappers available" in a Cigar Aficionado article on why the world's best cigars use Connecticut tobacco wrapper leaves.
From its source at an elevation of 2005 m in Swiss territory near the Simplon Pass it flows through the hamlet Egga to the village of Simplon.
Évry Cathedral of the Resurrection (Cathédrale de la Résurrection d'Évry) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the new town of Évry (Essonne), France, designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta.
The settlement was established between 1747 and 1780 by Mennonite families coming from the Swiss Jura to the south and a few Amish families coming from the Montbéliard area to the southwest.
Franz Anatol Wyss (born Fulenbach, May 1, 1940) is a Swiss painter.
Friedrich Frey-Herosé (12 October 1801, Lindau - 22 September 1873) was a Swiss politician.
the Funambule funicular, a funicular railway in the Swiss city of Neuchâtel
Gilson Luís Pinheiro Júnior known as Juninho (born 21 April 1985 in Curitiba, Brazil) is an association footballer who plays as midfielder for FC Serrières in the Swiss 2. Liga Interregional.
Émil Goeldi (1859–1917), Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist, father of Oswaldo Goeldi
;10.5 cm Hb Model 46: Swiss version manufactured in Thun
He later signed a contract to play in the Swiss league with the Calanda Broncos where they won the Swiss championship.
Jeanine Cicognini (born 14 November 1986 in Brig, Valais) is a Swiss badminton player.
Josy Gyr-Steiner (10 October 1949 – 18 April 2007) was a Swiss politician from the Canton of Schwyz and member of the Swiss National Council (2003–2007).
The Kroesos Foundation is an artistic collective set up by Swiss Artist, Mark Divo.
In the 1812 War he was an officer in the British-controlled Swiss Regiment De Wattville.
It also included two Austrians (cartographer Erwin Schneider and Ernst Senn) and two Swiss (Bruno Spirig and Arthur Spöhel), and was the first expedition in the Everest area to include Americans (Fred Beckey, George Bell, and Richard McGowan).
The basis of London Calling! began at the Swiss resort of Davos in Christmas 1922, when Coward presented a musical outline of a new project involving himself and Lawrence, to benefactor, Edward William Bootle Wilbraham, 3rd Earl of Lathom, who was also a friend of André Charlot.
In 1894, Eyer and nine other Swiss pedagogues, including Georges de Regibus and Charles Champaud, were invited to Bulgaria by the Minister of Education Georgi Zhivkov to lay the foundations of sports education in the country.
Centered in the city of Basel, it came to notice in 2005 when Swiss art dealer Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, the owner of the Codex Tchacos, which contains the Gospel of Judas, informed the press that the manuscript would be donated to Maecenas for conservation and publication.
Melchior Lussy (1529–1606) was a Swiss Catholic statesman who represented the Catholic cantons of Switzerland in the Council of Trent.
The Melide causeway, sometimes called the Melide bridge or Melide dam, is a causeway and bridge across Lake Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino.
Lenders included singer David Bowie, the Swiss retail tycoon and art dealer Ursula Hauser, and the Dutch diamond magnate Sylvio Perlstein.
He opposes Swiss EU and UNO membership, but supports membership of Switzerland in North American Free Trade Agreement and European Free Trade Association for the purpose of free trade.
Oli Frey, real name Oliver Frey, Swiss magazine illustrator
By the end of the fifteenth century, those late-medieval troop types that had proven most successful in the Hundred Years' War and Burgundian Wars dominated warfare, especially the heavily armoured gendarme (a professional version of the medieval knight), the Swiss and Landsknecht mercenary pikeman, and the emerging artillery corps of heavy cannons, which were rapidly improving in technological sophistication.
Pinus cembra, also known as Swiss pine, Swiss stone pine or Arolla pine, is a species of pine tree that grows in the Alps and Carpathian Mountains of central Europe, in Poland (Tatra Mountains), Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia (Tatra Mountains), Ukraine and Romania.
He has made numerous radio recordings for Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, and Dutch and Swiss radios and is noted for singing Bach cantatas.
Nicole was born to Swiss parents December 10, 1915, in Charlottenburg, Germany.
In 1989, he recruited the Swiss-Lebanese engineer Khater Massaad who developed comprehensive industrialization plans for Ras Al Khaimah, the most important being the establishment of RAK Ceramics.
Confiserie Sprüngli, a Swiss luxury confectionery manufacturer known for its "Luxemburgerli" macaroons
San Bernardino Pass in the Swiss Alps connecting Thusis and Bellinzona
"Swiss Boy" is a single by Italo disco singer Tom Hooker, released in 1986 under the pseudonym Lou Sern.
Holding two seats in the Swiss National Council (lower or first chamber of the Swiss parliament), going into the 2007 elections, the party stood candidates in the cantons of Zürich, Vaud, Geneva and the Ticino on their own, and in Neuchâtel the candidate was on a joint list with Solidarity.
SRG SSR compiled the list of candidates for the national selection final with the Swiss radio broadcaster DRS 3 and the Swiss French and Italian-language television networks TSR and RSI.
Giezendanner supported the expansion of the Baregg tunnel (a bit of a bottleneck in the Swiss motorway network) in 2003, and the adding of a second tube of the Gotthard road tunnel.
Bazarov also became interested in philosophy during the first decade of the 20th Century, coming to reject Marx's formulaic dialectical materialism in favor of the use of the scientific method to observe and theorize about human behavior, as espoused by the Austrian Ernst Mach and the German-Swiss philosopher Richard Avenarius.
Her father, Yeslam bin Ladin (half brother of Osama bin Laden), is Saudi Arabian (father of Yemeni origin and mother of Iranian origin) and her mother, Carmen bin Ladin, is of Swiss father and Iranian mother from a noble family (mothers name: Mirdoth/Sheybani).
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.
This program accepts a wide range of input formats, including NBRF/PIR, FASTA, EMBL/Swiss-Prot, Clustal, GCC/MSF, GCG9 RSF, and GDE.
In 2002, PIR along with its international partners, EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute) and SIB (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics), were awarded a grant from NIH to create UniProt, a single worldwide database of protein sequence and function, by unifying the PIR-PSD, Swiss-Prot, and TrEMBL databases.
More powerful queries are also possible including searching with lists of gene or protein names, drug names, metabolite names, GenBank IDs, Swiss-Prot IDs, Agilent or Affymetrix microarray IDs.