Swiss Physicist
1. Auguste Piccard (1884)
Swiss Physicist
Swiss physicist who built his own craft to study the upper atmosphere and the depths of the sea. He was a member of the Solvay Congress, which was a series...
2. Paul Scherrer (1890)
Swiss Physicist
Swiss physicist who was the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich.
3. Heinrich Rohrer (1933)
Swiss Physicist
Scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 with partner Gerd Binning for designing the scanning tunneling microscope. He was an IBM Fellow and led their physics department...
4. Daniel Loss (1958)
Swiss Physicist
Daniel Loss is a professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Basel. With David P. DiVincenzo he proposed the Loss-DiVincenzo quantum computer in 1997 which would use...
5. Auguste Arthur de la Rive (1801)
Swiss Physicist
Auguste Arthur de la Rive was a Swiss physicist. De la Rive's first scientific publication was on the influence of the Earth's magnetism upon a movable frame traversed by a...
6. Pierre Prévost (1751)
Swiss Physicist
Pierre Prévost was a Genevan philosopher and physicist. In 1791 he showed that all bodies radiate heat no matter how hot or cold they are.