New book pays tribute to 60 pioneers from Zurich, including 12 from ETH
Doodle, MRI and the Mach number are the brainchilds of some of ETH’s brightest minds, who feature alongside other pioneers in the book "Zürcher Pioniergeist". We have three copies to give away.
The publication presents a total of 60 personalities from the worlds of science, technology, culture and society. Twelve of them had held professorships at ETH Zurich, while one was once a student here. Most of them would not have made it into the book at all had it not been for their groundbreaking work at ETH:
- Jakob Ackeret, the man who gave the Mach number a name
- Georg Bednorz, co-discoverer of high-temperature superconductivity (Nobel Prize winner)
- Gerd Binnig, co-inventor of the scanning tunnelling microscope (Nobel Prize winner)
- Richard Ernst, developer of magnetic resonance imagining (Nobel Prize winner)
- Fritz Fischer, inventor of the Eidophor projector
- Carl Gustav Jung, founder of analytical psychology
- Karl Alexander Müller, co-discoverer of high-temperature superconductivity (Nobel Prize winner)
- Michael Näf, founder of Doodle
- Ingo Potrykus, co-inventor of golden rice
- Heinrich Rohrer, co-inventor of the scanning tunnelling microscope (Nobel Prize winner)
- Niklaus Wirth, inventor of the Pascal programming language
- Kurt Wüthrich, developer of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the structure of proteins (Nobel Prize winner)
«Zürcher Pioniergeist» ("Zurich's pioneering spirit")
This book presents 60 pioneering personalities who came from or lived and worked in the canton of Zurich after 1900: men and women whose ideas and initiative broke new ground in technology, science, society and culture.
Editor: Beat Glogger
Publisher: Lehrmittelverlag Zürich
Competition
We have three copies of “Zürcher Pioniergeist” to give away. To take part in the prize draw, all you need to do is enter your name here.
The competition will run until 4.00 p.m. on Friday 7 November 2014. The winners will be notified by e-mail.
The result of the draw is final.
