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22 unusual facts about University of Zurich


Alacalufe people

Early in 2010, the remains of five of the seven who died in Europe were repatriated from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where they had been held for studies.

Arnold Lang

In the autumn of 1891, a European fellowship for the best graduate in class enabled American experimental biologist Lilian Vaughan Morgan to go to Europe and study muscles in chitons at the University of Zurich with Arnold Lang.

Bemaraha woolly lemur

The species was first discovered in 1990 by a team of scientists from Zurich University led by Urs Thalmann, but wasn't formally described as a species until November 11, 2005.

CalSky

It was created by Arnold Barmettler a researcher at the University of Zurich and formerly a scientific assistant at the European Space Agency.

Cilag

The first president of Cilag's administrative board was Carl Naegeli, a well-known professor at the Chemical Institute of the University of Zurich.

Donald D. Chamberlin

In 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zurich.

Ehrengrab

It is a common tomb for people who have donated their bodies to the Anatomical Institute of the University of Zurich for the needs of science and wished that their urn would be stored there.

European Academy of Music Theatre

Thus conferences with renowned partners such as the Vienna State Opera, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon as well as the European Forum Alpbach and the University of Zurich could be held.

Felix Oberholzer-Gee

A member of the faculty since 2003, Professor Oberholzer-Gee received his Masters degree, summa cum laude, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Zurich.

Flori Lang

He holds a degree of Bachelor of Arts in Banking & Finance from the University of Zurich.

Gerhard Ebeling

Gerhard Ebeling (1912-2001) was a student of Rudolf Bultmann at Zurich University.

Henry de Bury

Count Robert Visart de Bury, of Bury in Péruwelz, Belgium and St. John, New Brunswick, a civil engineer, studied at the Episcopal College of Mecheln, in Belgium, at the University of Zurich and at the Polytechnic School of Stuttgart in Württemberg.

Herbert Kalmus

He earned his doctorate at the University of Zurich, then taught physics, electrochemistry and metallurgy at MIT and at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Ita Wegman

Five years later she began medical school at the University of Zurich, where women were already allowed to study medicine.

Monsieur Pierre

As a young man, Pierre's engineering studies at Zurich University were abruptly halted when he was struck in the eye by a tennis ball.

Motsetsi

Excavations have been conducted at Motsetse by the University of the Witwatersrand and at times in conjunction with Peter Schmid of the University of Zurich.

Rushdi Said

He began teaching geology in the faculty after returning from a scientific study in the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1951.

Smartvote

The development is supported by a public research institution, namely the project of the National Center of Competence in Research: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century (NCCR Democracy) of the University of Zurich.

Supercritical angle fluorescence microscopy

The method was invented in 1998 in the laboratories of Stefan Seeger at University of Regensburg/Germany and later at University of Zurich/Switzerland.

Szondi test

In 1963, after finishing the fifth volume, he published Introduction to Fate Analysis; it is a short book that collects conferences he held at the University of Zurich the previous year, with the aim of introducing to a larger public the most important results of his research.

Task Force Scorpio

The Task force was founded by Dr Robert Steffen of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland and co-founded by Jack Woodall.

William Ashbrook Kellerman

In 1879, the Kellermans moved to Germany, where he attended the Universities of Göttingen and Zurich, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1881.


Emil Brunner

He studied at the universities of Zurich and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in theology from Zurich in 1913, with a dissertation on The Symbolic Element in Religious Knowledge. Brunner served as pastor from 1916 to 1924 in the mountain village of Obstalden in the Swiss Canton of Glarus.

Francis Travis

Born in Detroit, Michigan, his advanced musical studies were at the University of Zurich, with a Ph.D. in Musicology after writing a dissertation on Giuseppe Verdi.

Georg Ruge

In 1888 Ruge became a professor of anatomy at the University of Amsterdam, and in 1897 obtained the same position at the University of Zurich.

Henri Stierlin

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

John Bates Clark

From 1872 to 1875, he attended the University of Zurich and the University of Heidelberg where he studied under Karl Knies (a leader of the German Historical School).

Jürgen Hennig

From 1982 to 1983 Hennig was a post-doctoral student at the University of Zurich, where he worked in the area of CIDNP Spectroscopy.

Lorenz Erni

He studied at the University of Zürich, the University of Hamburg (Germany), and obtained a doctorate of law in 1974.

Louise Catherine Breslau

When Breslau was two years old, her father accepted the position of professor and head physician of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Zurich; Switzerland became home to the Breslau family.

Starmind International

Starmind was founded by Pascal Kaufmann and Marc Vontobel at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Zurich University, led by Prof Rolf Pfeifer.

Studies in Language

Its managing editors are Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich), Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and University of California, Santa Barbara), and Ekkehard König (Freie Universität Berlin).

Web Experimental Psychology Lab

The Web Experimental Psychology Lab was founded in 1995, by Ulf-Dietrich Reips at the University of Tübingen, and is now at the University of Zürich.