Zurich University - Definition and Overview

The University of Zurich (in German: Universität Zürich) is the largest university in Zurich. It was founded on April 29, 1833 with faculties of theology, law, medicine and philosophy. Currently, the University has faculties of theology, arts, science, medicine, vetinary medicine, economics, and law.

Notable graduates include a number of Nobel prize winners

• Albert Einstein
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
• Carl Spitteler

Professors at the University who won the Nobel Prize

• Theodor Mommsen (Literature, 1902)
• Alfred Wener (Chemistry 1913)
• Leopold Stefan Ruzicka (Chemistry 1913)
• Max von Laue (Physics 1914)
• Albert Einstein (Physics 1921)
• Erwin Schrödinger (Physics 1933)
• Peter Debye (Chemistry 1936)
• Paul Karrer (Chemistry 1937)
• Walter Rudolf Hess (Medicine 1949)
• Karl Alex Müller (Physics 1987)
• Rolf M. Zinkernagel (Medicine 1996)

History

The University was founded in 1833 with existing colleges of theology, law and medicine merged together with a new faculty of Philosophy to form the University of Zurich. This was the first University in Europe to be founded by the state rather than a monarch or church. The university allowed women to listen in on philosophy lectures from 1847, and admitted the first female doctoral student in 1866. The Faculty of Vetinary Medicine was added in 1901, the oldest such faculty in the world. In 1914, The University moved to new premises on Rämistrasse 71, designed by the architect Karl Moser.

External links

• Official homepage (http://www.unizh.ch/index.en.html)