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11 unusual facts about University of Lausanne


Albert J. McNeil

McNeil earned a Bachelor and Master degrees at the University of California, Los Angeles, and did his doctoral studies at the University of Southern California, the Westminster Choir College of Princeton, and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Bugnon

Bugnon, the site where the campus of the University Hospital of Lausanne and several buildings of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne are located

Burckhardt Helferich

He studied science, especially Geology, at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and from 1907 chemistry in Munich and Berlin.

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.

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.

Henri Stierlin

Stierlin studied Classics with Law at the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich.

John Murray Anderson

He was then sent to Europe, where he was educated at Edinburgh Academy in Scotland and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Michael Allinson

Allinson attended Ryeford Hall, Wycliffe College, Gloucestershire and the University of Lausanne.

Pierre-Yves Maillard

Born in Lausanne, he studied literature at the University of Lausanne and was president of the Swiss Students' Association.

Rob Nguyen

After growing up in Australia, Nguyen was sent to the University of Lausanne, Switzerland to study Business in 2000.

Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri

He studied at the University of Lausanne, and at the age of 19 began work as a tutor to the princes of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.


Corneille Heymans

After graduation Heymans worked at the Collège de France (under Prof. E. Gley), the University of Lausanne (under Prof. M. Arthus), the University of Vienna (under Prof. H. H. Meyer), University College London (under Prof. E. H. Starling) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (under Prof. C. F. Wiggers).

François-Serge Lhabitant

He was formerly a Visiting Professor of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, at HEC, Lausanne, Switzerland and at the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Gábor Laurenczy

Since 1985 he works in Lausanne, in the Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Lausanne, in 1986 as assistant, from 1987 as first assistant, from 1991 as maître assistant and since 1998 as maître d'enseignement et de recherche (Teaching: general, inorganic and analytical chemistry, instrumental analysis).

Georges de Rham

He studied at the University of Lausanne and then in Paris for a doctorate, becoming a lecturer in Lausanne in 1931; where he held positions until retirement in 1971; he held positions in Geneva in parallel.

Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe

The origins of the foundation go back to a meeting between Jean Monnet and Henri Rieben in 1955 and it is located at the "Farm of Dorigny", in the heart of the University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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.

University Hospital of Lausanne

Some laboratories are located in Épalinges (north of Lausanne), on a campus shared with the University of Lausanne and the Biopôle.