University of Basel Admitted Student Profiles & Alumni

Paracelsus

Influential philosopher, physician, botanist (Renaissance era)

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Jacob Bernoulli

Mathematician known for Bernoulli numbers

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Johann Bernoulli

Mathematician, influential in calculus development

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Leonhard Euler

Mathematician and physicist, foundational figure in many fields

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher who held a chair at Basel at age 24

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Carl Gustav Jung

Founder of Analytical Psychology (psychiatrist)

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Karl Jaspers

Philosopher and psychiatrist

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Rudolf Eucken

Philosopher, Nobel Prize in Literature

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David Friedrich Struik**

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Friedrich Miescher

Discoverer of nucleic acid (DNA precursor)

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Tadeus Reichstein

Nobel Prize in Medicine (1950) for adrenal cortex hormones research

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Werner Arber

Microbiologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1978) for restriction enzymes

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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Biologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1995) for genetic control of embryonic dev.

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Jacques Dubochet

Biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017) for cryo-electron microscopy

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Kurt Wüthrich

Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2002) for NMR methods for biomolecules

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Rolf Zinkernagel

Physician, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1996) for immune recognition

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Silvia Arber

Neurobiologist, Brain Prize winner; Professor at Basel Biozentrum

PhD (Bio)

~1995

Charles Albert Gobat

Nobel Peace Prize (1902) laureate; educated in law including at Basel

Doctorate (Law)

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Mirjana Spoljaric Egger

Diplomat, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

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Ernst Stueckelberg

Mathematician and physicist, key contributions in quantum field theory

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