dairy professor and technical innovator Stefan Janos (born 1943), low temperature physicist Paul Karrer (1889–1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Emil Theodor Kocher (1841–1917), 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817–1894), chemist Michel Mayor (born 1942), astronomer Friedrich Miescher (1844–1895), physician and biologist, discovered DNA Johannes von Müller (1752–1809), historian K. Alex Müller (1927–2023), 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics Paul Müller (1899–1965), 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Jean-Daniel Nicoud (born 1938), computer scientist and researcher Johann Caspar von Orelli (1787–1849) P-Z Paracelsus (1493–1541) (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), alchemist Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958), 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics Jean Piaget (1896–1980), psychologist Auguste Piccard (1884–1962), physicist and balloonist Bertrand Piccard (born 1958), psychiatrist and balloonist Jacques Piccard (1922–2008), engineer and underwater explorer Jean Piccard (1884–1963), balloonist François-Jules Pictet de la Rive (1809–1872), zoologist and paleontologist Raoul Pictet (1846–1929), physicist Adolf Portmann (1897–1982), zoologist Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998), 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Didier Queloz (born 1966), astronomer Tadeus Reichstein (1897–1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Eugene Renevier (1831–1906), geologist Heinrich Rohrer (1933–2013), 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics Heinz Rutishauser (1918–1970), mathematician, computer software pioneer Leopold Ružička (1887–1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672–1733), Swiss savant Louis Secretan (1758–1839), mycologist Jack Steinberger (1921–2020), 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics Ernst Stueckelberg (1905–1984), theoretical physicist Alfred Werner (1866–1919), 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Niklaus Wirth (born 1934), computer scientist, Turing Award winner, inventor of the Pascal programming language Kurt Wüthrich (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Daniel Albert Wyttenbach (1746–1820) Alexandre Yersin (1894–1943), physician, isolated the Yersinia pestis Rolf M. Zinkernagel (born 1944), 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974), astronomer Theodor Zwinger (1533–1588), scholar Sports Paul Accola (born 1967), skiing champion David Aebischer (born 1978), former National Hockey League goaltender Jeff Agoos (born 1968), Swiss-born American soccer defender Daniel Albrecht (born 1983), alpine skier Simon Ammann (born 1981), gold medallist in ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics, ski jumping at the 2010 Winter Olympics Manuel Bachmann (born 1975), footballer Timea Bacsinszky (born 1989), tennis player Sven Bärtschi (born 1992), National Hockey League player for the Vancouver Canucks Madeleine Berthod (born 1931), 1956 gold medallist in downhill skiing Denise Biellmann (born 1962), world champion figure skater Sepp Blatter (born 1935), FIFA president Clint Capela (born 1994), NBA player for the Houston Rockets Ursula Bruhin (born 1970), snowboarder