Nobel Prize winners
The names listed below are taken from the official record compiled by ETH Zurich. It includes only graduates of ETH Zurich and professors who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their achievements at ETH Zurich.[2]
Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (graduate)
- 1920 Charles-Edouard Guillaume (graduate)
- 1921 Albert Einstein (student and professor)
- 1943 Otto Stern (lecturer)
- 1945 Wolfgang Pauli (professor)
- 1952 Felix Bloch (graduate)
- 1986 Heinrich Rohrer (graduate)
- 1987 Georg Bednorz (graduate)
- 1987 Karl Alexander Müller (graduate)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1913 Alfred Werner (graduate)
- 1915 Richard Martin Willstätter (professor)
- 1918 Fritz Haber (attended for one semester)
- 1936 Peter Debye (professor)
- 1938 Richard Kuhn (professor)
- 1939 Leopold Ružička (professor)
- 1953 Hermann Staudinger (lecturer)
- 1975 Vladimir Prelog (professor)
- 1991 Richard Ernst (graduate and professor)
- 2002 Kurt Wüthrich (professor)
- 2010 Richard F. Heck (postdoctoral scientist)
Nobel Prize in Medicine
- 1950 Tadeus Reichstein (graduate)
- 1978 Werner Arber (graduate)
Other Nobel laureates directly affiliated with ETH Zurich
- 1912 Nils Gustaf Dalén (in collaboration with Aurel Stodola)
- 1943 George de Hevesy
- 1945 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (in collaboration with Georg Wiegner)
- 1954 Max Born (in collaboration with Adolf Hurwitz)
- 1964 Konrad E. Bloch (in collaboration with Leopold Ružička and Vladimir Prelog)
- 1968 Lars Onsager (in collaboration with Peter Debye and Erich Hückel)
- 1968 Har Gobind Khorana (in collaboration with Vladimir Prelog)
- 1969 Max Delbrück (in collaboration with Wolfgang Pauli)
- 1987 Jean-Marie Lehn