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The ETH Zurich main building, which is the centre of the Zentrum campus. ETH Zurich has two campuses, namely Zentrum and Hönggerberg. The Zentrum campus grew around the main building, which was constructed 1858–1864 outside and right above the eastern border of the town, but which is nowadays located right in the heart of the city. As the ...
The 2000-watt society concept, introduced in 1998 by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), aims to reduce the average primary energy use of First World citizens to no more than 2,000 watts (equivalent to 2 kilowatt-hours per hour or 48 kilowatt-hours per day) by 2050, without compromising their standard of living.
A cost-efficient brain PET scanner resulted from this work. [2] In 2001, he started teaching as assistant professor at ETH Zurich. His promotion to full professor for particle physics occurred in 2007. Dissertori received the Golden Owl Award for best teaching, bestowed by his students, in 2005, 2009, 2015 and 2020.
Like ETH Zurich and EPFL, PSI belongs to the ETH Domain of the Swiss Confederation. The PSI employs around 3000 people. [3] It conducts basic and applied research in the fields of matter and materials, human health, and energy and the environment. About 37% of PSI's research activities focus on material sciences, 24% on life sciences, 19% on ...
With backing from a National Science Foundation grant, Fairey and scientists from EPA and ETH Zurich, a public university in Switzerland, isolated and identified the byproduct from inorganic ...
The European Metropolitan Region of Zurich (EMRZ), also Greater Zurich Area (GZA, German Zürcher Wirtschaftsraum, Metropolregion Zürich), the metropolitan area surrounding Zurich, is one of Europe’s economically strongest areas and Switzerland’s economic centre.
The office building of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, with part of the computing building on the left edge of the photo. The building at the new location Lugano-Cornaredo has a pillar-free machine hall of 2,000 m 2 and can be powered with up to 20 MW electricity.
1854: A Parliamentary resolution establishes a federal polytechnic school in Zurich, on the basis of the 1848 constitution. 15 October 1855: Opening of the ‘Swiss Federal Polytechnic School’ with six divisions, including the Engineering School and – although not originally envisaged – the ‘Building School’.