Switzerland
- Kurt Wüthrich, Chemistry, 2002
- Médecins Sans Frontières, Peace, 1999
- Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Physiology or Medicine, 1996
- Edmond H. Fischer, born in China, Physiology or Medicine, 1992
- Richard R. Ernst, Chemistry, 1991
- Karl Alexander Müller, Physics, 1987
- Heinrich Rohrer, Physics, 1986
- Georges J. F. Köhler, born in Germany (worked in Switzerland for 1976 to 1984), Physiology or Medicine, 1984
- Werner Arber, Physiology or Medicine, 1978
- Vladimir Prelog, born in then Austria-Hungary, now Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chemistry, 1975
- Daniel Bovet, Physiology or Medicine, 1957
- Felix Bloch, Physics, 1952
- Tadeus Reichstein, Physiology or Medicine, 1950
- Walter Rudolf Hess, Physiology or Medicine, 1949
- Paul Hermann Müller, Physiology or Medicine, 1948
- Hermann Hesse, born in Germany, Literature, 1946
- Leopold Ružička, born in then Austria-Hungary, now Croatia, Chemistry, 1939
- Paul Karrer, Chemistry, 1937
- Albert Einstein, born in Germany, Physics, 1921
- Charles Édouard Guillaume, Physics, 1920
- Carl Spitteler, Literature, 1919
- Alfred Werner, Chemistry, 1913
- Theodor Kocher, Physiology or Medicine, 1909
- Élie Ducommun, Peace, 1902
- Charles Albert Gobat, Peace, 1902
- Henry Dunant, Peace, 1901
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Famous quotes containing the word switzerland:
“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)