the Swiss Diet (before 1848) List of presidents of the Swiss National Council (since 1848) Religion Jakob Abbadie (1654–1727), Protestant preacher Gilberto Agustoni (1922–2017), cardinal Jacob Amman (1644–?) Karl Barth (1886–1968), theologian Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575), reformer in Zurich Georges Cottier (1922–2016), cardinal, theologian Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484–1530), painter, dramatician, politician and reformer in Berne Johann Augustanus Faber (c.1470–c.1530), theologian and historian William Farel (1489–1565), reformer in Lausanne Theodosius Florentini (1808–1865) Gaston Frommel (1862–1906) Berchtold Haller (1492–1536), reformer in Berne Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1801–1874) Johann Jakob Herzog (1805–1882) Hans Küng (1928–2021), theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801), pastor and physiognomist Oswald Myconius (1488–1552) Johannes Oecolampadius (1482–1531), reformer in Basel Frère Roger (1915–2005), founder of Taizé Philip Schaff (1819–1893) Henri Schwery (1932–2021), cardinal, former Bishop of Sion Erika Sutter, medical missionary to South Africa Clemens Thoma (1932–2011) Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1797–1847), theologian and critic Pierre Viret (1511–1571), reformer in Vaud Canton Lukas Vischer (1926–2008), theologian and writer Johann Jakob Wettstein (1693–1754), theologian John Joachim Zubly (Hans Joachim Züblin) (1724–1781), pastor, delegate to the Continental Congress Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), reformer in Zurich Science A-F Alexander Emanuel Agassiz (1835–1910), American man of science Louis Agassiz (1807–1873), did work on ice ages, glaciers Jacob Amsler (1823–1912), mathematician and inventor of measuring instruments Werner Arber (born 1929), 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Johann Georg Baiter (1801–1877), philologist Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840–1914), archaeologist Jean-François Bergier (1931–2009), historian Eugen Bleuler (1857–1940), psychiatrist Felix Bloch (1905–1983), 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics Hans Bluntschli (1877–1962), anatomist Charles Bonnet (1720–1793), botanist Daniel Bovet (born 1907–1992), 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Joost Bürgi (1552–1632), mathematician and watchmaker Johann Büttikofer (1850–1929), zoologist Jean-André Deluc (1727–1817), geologist Paul Dirac (1902–1984), physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955), 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics Richard R. Ernst (1933–2021), 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Edmond H. Fischer (1920–2021), 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Fritz Fischer (1898–1947), physicist Auguste Forel (1848–1931), myrmecologist, psychiatrist, neurologist François-Alphonse Forel (1841–1912), pioneer in the study of lakes Johann Kaspar Füssli (1743–1786), entomologist G-O Conrad Gessner (1516–1565) Jules Gonin (1870–1935), ophthalmologist Gustav Guanella (1909–1982), electronics engineer, inventor André Guignard (born 1942), engineer Charles-Edouard Guillaume (1861–1938), 1920 Nobel Prize in Physics Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777) Walter Hess (1881–1973), 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Carl Hilty (1833–1909), jurist Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), chemist, discoverer of d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) Eugen Huber (1849–1923), jurist François Huber (1750–1831), naturalist Otto Frederick Hunziker (1873–1959),