List of Swiss inventors and discoverers

This is a list of Swiss inventors and discoverers. The following list comprises people from Switzerland, and also people of predominantly Swiss heritage, in alphabetical order of the surname.

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Felix Bloch.
 
Henry Dunant, in 1901
  • Henry Dunant, (nobel prize), inventor of The Red Cross. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 with Frédéric Passy, famous French Peace activist.
  • Jacques Dubochet (chemistry nobel prize 2017), bio-physicist, received a nobel for his work on the development of cryogenic electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of bio-molecules in solution.[1] In 2020, the developments in the field helped to support the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. This technology help to study the viral assembly and replication processes at a molecule scale. It enabled to quickly understand the spike protein structure of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
 
Albert Hofmann.
 
Emil Theodor Kocher.
 
Paul Hermann Müller
  • Paul Hermann Müller, discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.
 
Auguste Piccard.
 
René Sommer (right) with Douglas Engelbart (left).
 
Alfred Werner
 
Kurt Wüthrich

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  1. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
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