See also: Polytechnic school

The federal Polytechnic school of Zurich (in German Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich , ETHZ) is a technical university located at Zurich, Suisse. Its shortened French name is EPFZ. It is sometimes called “ETH” or “Poly” according to its original name.

The ETHZ is regarded by certain as one of the universities leader in Europe in the field of the Chimie, the Physique and the Informatique. It is also famous in the Germanic world for its elevated level.

History

The ETHZ was founded in 1854 by the Swiss Confederation, and opened its doors in 1855 under the name of Polytechnic Institut (Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule). It included/understood in the beginning six departments: structure, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry, sylviculture, as well as a generic department which included/understood mathematics, the natural science, the literature, and social sciences and policies.

With a new law in 1991 which became effective in 1993, the associated ETHZ, FPSL and 4 research institutes were gathered within the Domaine of the federal Polytechnic schools which is managed by the council of the polytechnic schools.

Departments

The ETH currently consists of 16 departments:

• AGRL Agrar- und Lebensmittelwissenschaften (food Agronomy and sciences)
• ARCH Architektur (Architecture)
• BAUG Beam, Umwelt und Geomatik (Engineering of the environment and Civil engineering)
• BIOL Biology (Biology)
• BSSE Biosysteme (biological Systems)
• CHAB Chemie und Angewandte Biowissenschaften (Chemistry and Biology Applied)
• ERDW Erdwissenschaften (Sciences of the Earth)
• GESS Geistes-, Sozial- und Staatswissenschaften (social Humanities, Political sciences and)
• INFK Informatik (Data-processing)
• ITET Informationstechnologie und Elektrotechnik (Technologies the Information and Electrotechnical)
• MATHS Mathematik (Mathematical)
• MATL Materialwissenschaft (Physical of the Materials)
• MAVT Maschinenbau und Verfahrenstechnik (mechanical Engineering, Genius of the processes)
• MTEC Management, Technology und Ökonomie (Management, Technology and Economy)
• PHYS Physik (Physical)
• UWIS Umweltwissenschaften (Sciences of the Environment)

Geographical location

The ETH is located on two distinct campuses. The oldest buildings are in the center of Zurich, in a district called ETH Zentrum (ETH Center). It is the historical heart of the ETH with in particular its principal building with its cupola. The ETH is partly also located on the Hönggerberg hill, in edge of the city. They are new and very vast buildings. A system of bus (free for the pupils and the professors) connects the two campuses.

Famous people

The polytechnic school of Zurich accommodated pupils who marked the history of sciences thereafter:

• Georg Cantor, (Mathematician).
• John von Neumann, (Mathematician, Physicist, Chemist and father of the Data-processing modern).

Many Swiss prizes winner of the Nobel Prize were or are associated with the ETH Zurich:

• 1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Physical) - studied with the ETHZ.
• 1913 Alfred Werner (Chemistry) - Professor with the ETHZ.
• 1915 Richard Willstätter (Chemistry) - Professor with the ETHZ.
• 1918 Fritz Haber (Chemistry) - studied with the ETHZ.
• 1920 Charles Edouard Guillaume (Physical) - studied with the ETHZ.
• 1921 Albert Einstein (Physical) - studied with the ETHZ.
• 1936 Peter Debye (Chemistry) - Professor with the ETHZ.
• 1938 Richard Kuhn (Chemistry) - Professor with the ETHZ of 1926 to 1929.
• 1939 Leopold Ruzicka (Chemistry) - Professor with the ETHZ.
• 1943 Otto Stern (Physical) - University lecturer with the ETH (1914).
• 1945 Wolfgang Pauli (Physical) - Professor with the ETHZ.
• 1950 Tadeusz Reichstein (Medicine) - studied with the ETHZ.
• 1952 Felix Bloch (Physical) - studied with the ETHZ.
• 1953 Hermann Staudinger (Chemistry) - Teaching with the ETH of 1912 to 1926.
• 1975 Vladimir Prelog (Chemistry) - Professor with the ETHZ.
• 1978 Werner Arber (Medicine) - studied with the ETHZ.
• 1986 Heinrich Rohrer (Physical) - with Gerd Binnig; Rohrer studied with the ETHZ.
• 1987 Georg Bednorz and Karl Alexander Müller (Physical) - both studied with the ETHZ.

• 1991 Richard Ernst (Chemistry) - Professor with the ETHZ.

• 2002 Kurt Wüthrich (Chemistry) - Professor with the ETHZ.

The Price Turing of ACM, regarded as the equivalent of the Nobel in data processing, was allotted to a professor of the ETHZ:

• 1984 Niklaus Wirth (Data-processing) - Professor with the ETHZ.

See too

• federal Polytechnic school of Lausanne
• Trainings of engineers in Switzerland

External bonds

• Site of the EPFZ
• EPF in the Swiss files of the radio and television

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