2.2.4 Swiss Nobel Prize winners
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This article is from the Switzerland FAQ, by Marc Schaefer schaefer@alphanet.ch with numerous contributions by others.
2.2.4 Swiss Nobel Prize winners
1901 Henry Dunant, Peace (red cross)
1902 Elie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat (Peace)
1909 Emil Theodor Kocher (Medicine)
1913 Alfred Werner (Chemistry)
1919 Carl Spitteler (Literature) (from Liestal)
1920 Charles Eduard Guillaume (Physics)
1937 Paul Karrer (Chemistry)
1939 Leopold Ruzicka (Chemistry) (born in Croatia)
1946 Hermann Hesse (Literature) (born in Germany)
1948 Paul Hermann Mueller (Medicine) (DDT)
1949 Walter Rudolf Hess (Medicine)
1950 Tadeus Rechstein (Medicine) (born in Poland)
1975 Vladimir Prelog (Chemistry) (born Sarajevo)
1978 Werner Arber (Medicine)
1986 Heinrich Rohrer (Physics)
1987 K. Alexander Mueller (Physics)
1988 Jack Steinberger (Physics)
1991 Richard Robert Ernst (Chemistry)
1996 Rolf M. Zinkernagel (Medicine)
Sources: World Almanac 1991 (quite wrong)
"Der Neue Brockhaus", Encyclopedia, 1991
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~clancey/Nobel/Nobel-Physics.html
http://www.theo1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/~marlow/physics_nobel.html
http://www.chem.ethz.ch/D-CHEM-Prof/ernst/ernst.html
It should be noted that for many nobel laureates who changed
nationality in their life, most prominently Einstein, but possibly
also Canetti, Prelog, Ruzicka, Hesse, nationality is/was simply a
non-issue; thus a list as the one compiled above is only of
informative value, without any nationalism intended. A more
interesting list could be which nobel laureates received their prizes
for work done at swiss institutions.
The "Bureau International permanent de la Paix", Berne, founded by
Ducommun/Gobat, was awarded the prize for Peace in 1910.
The ICRC (Comite International de la Croix-Rouge), Geneve, was awarded
the prize for peace in 1917, 1944 and 1963.
See: (http://www.icrc.ch/icrcnews/242a.htm)
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