Conrad Gessner ( or Gesner ), the Swiss scientist and natural historian of the Renaissance, made a Latin translation of Aelian's work, to give it a wider European audience.

First synthesized in 1874 by Othmar Zeidler, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939 by the Swiss scientist Paul Hermann Müller, who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his efforts.

* 1934 – Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist

Niklaus Emil Wirth ( born February 15, 1934 ) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering.

This idea was initially disputed by another Swiss scientist, Louis Agassiz, but when he undertook to disprove it, he ended up affirming his colleague's hypothesis.

* February 15 – Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist

* December 27 – Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and scientist ( d. 1705 )

* November 11 ( or December 17 – Paracelsus, Swiss physician and scientist ( d. 1541 )

The first documented death due to vitamin A poisoning was Xavier Mertz, a Swiss scientist who died in January 1913 on an Antarctic expedition that had lost its food supplies and fell to eating its sled dogs.

Bernoulli's principle is named after the Swiss scientist Daniel Bernoulli who published his principle in his book Hydrodynamica in 1738.

The novel tells how a Swiss scientist creates a new destructive weapon, " thick water " which freezes at 42 ° C. All water affected by this " thick water " is transformed into the form of water, and freezes immediately.

In 1941 the Swiss scientist Hans Jenny expanded Vasily Dokuchaev equation by adding relief / topology as a factor and separating the biological processes into the fauna and flora coming up with the equation:

* Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth ( 1767 − 1823 ), a Swiss scientist, civil engineer and politician

Educated as a scientist with a background as a Bomb Team Technician / EOD in Vietnam (" Countdown "), and from a fictional United States government agency, the Department of External Services ( DXS ), he is a resourceful agent with an encyclopedic knowledge of science, able to solve complex problems with everyday materials he finds at hand, along with his ever-present duct tape and Swiss Army knife.

At King's College Wilkins pursued, among other things x-ray diffraction work on DNA that had been obtained from calf thymus by the Swiss scientist Rudolf Signer.

François-Alphonse Forel ( February 2, 1841-August 7, 1912 ) was a Swiss scientist who pioneered the study of lakes, and is thus considered the founder of limnology.

* François-Alphonse Forel ( 1841 – 1912 ), a Swiss scientist, founder of limnology

Preeminent among these scientific pioneers were Swammerdam, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Charles Bonnet, and the blind Swiss scientist Francois Huber.

* Horace-Bénédict de Saussure ( 1740-1799 ), Swiss scientist and mountain pioneer

* Niklaus Wirth ( 1934 – Present ), Swiss computer scientist, designer of several programming languages

* October 16-Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician and scientist, founder of neurology ( died 1777 )

* Werner Ulrich, Swiss social scientist and practical philosopher, one of the originators of " critical systems thinking " ( CST ).

It was invented in 1896 by Swiss scientist Charles Édouard Guillaume.

In the early 1960s, the Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann — known for the synthesis of the psychedelic drug LSD — chemically analyzed P. semilanceata fruit bodies collected in Switzerland and France by the botanist Roger Heim.

According to a modern history of the regiment, the idea for creating this unique force was proposed by Jacques Prevost, a Swiss soldier and adventurer who was a friend of The Duke of Cumberland ( William, who was the King's second son and was Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.

He resigned from his post in August and was replaced by the Swiss magnate Jacques Necker.

Leading historians of the period who testified as " experts " during the trial included Jean-Pierre Azéma, André Kaspi, Marc-Olivier Baruch, Henry Rousso, Denis Peschanski, Maurice Rajsfus, René Rémond, Jacques Delarue, Henri Amouroux, Michel Bergès, as well as US historian Robert Paxton and Swiss historian Philippe Burin.

Showing an intense interest in science as a child, he attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and became a professor of physics in Brussels at the Free University of Brussels in 1922, the same year his son Jacques Piccard was born.

Jacques Necker ( 30 September 1732 – 9 April 1804 ) was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI, a post he held in the lead-up to the French Revolution in 1789.

Cellophane was invented by Swiss chemist Jacques E. Brandenberger while employed by Blanchisserie et Teinturerie de Thaon.

There, he met other Swiss, among them Jean-Paul Marat and Étienne Dumont, but their plans for a new Geneva in Ireland — which the government of William Pitt the Younger favoured — were given up when Jacques Necker came to power in France, and Clavière, with most of his comrades, went to Paris.

Her father was the prominent Swiss banker and statesman Jacques Necker, who was the Director of Finance under King Louis XVI of France.

Jacques Gerschwiler ( 10 September 1898 – 4 May 2000 ) was a noted Swiss figure skater and coach.

The architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron from Basel received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2001, and in 2009 the prize was awarded to Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.

The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog ( born 19 April 1950 ), and Pierre de Meuron ( born 8 May 1950 ), closely paralleled one another, with both attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ( ETH ) in Zürich.

* Jacques Herzog ( born 1950 ), Swiss architect, founder of Herzog & de Meuron

Its founder, Jacques Tschumi, an influential member of the Swiss Hotel Association, had to persuade his rather reticent fellow members that the project was a realistic and viable one.

Designed by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the building won the Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2003.

* American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876 by Jacques David

* American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876 by Jacques David

* American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876 by Jacques David

Jacques Piccard ( 28 July 19221 November 2008 ) was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater vehicles for studying ocean currents.

Jacques Piccard was the mission leader ; Erwin Aebersold, another Swiss, was Piccard ’ s handpicked pilot and main assistant to Piccard and project engineer during the Franklin's design and construction.

In its generic name Humboldt and Bonpland honoured Swiss botanist Jacques Denis Choisy ( 1799-1859 ).

But Rousseau, though a Genevese, belongs rather to European than to Swiss literature, as do later Jacques Necker and his daughter, Madame de Staël, Benjamin Constant and Sismondi.

His adoptive father directed his early education and his tutors included the poet Cuthbert Shaw and Edward Gibbon's friend the Swiss Jacques Georges Deyverdun, as well as Adam Ferguson, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and the forger Dr William Dodd.

Giampietro Vieusseux, Swiss, the founder of the Gabinetto Vieusseux ( where John Ruskin, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, and Robert Browning were readers ), is also buried here ; and likewise the Swiss historian Jacques Augustin Galiffe, who with Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi pioneered genealogical, archival research.