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The Swiss National Science Foundation, mandated by the Federal government, is the most important institute for promoting scientific research. The raw output of scientific research from Switzerland consistently ranks within the top 20. [2] Switzerland was ranked 1st in the Global Innovation Index in 2024, the same position as 2021, 2020, 2019 ...
Switzerland, [d] officially the Swiss Confederation, [e] is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. [f] [13] It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
The 10 to 1 ratio was an estimate made in 1972; current estimates put the ratio at either 3 to 1 or 1.3 to 1. [301] The total length of capillaries in the human body is not 100,000 km. That figure comes from a 1929 book by August Krogh, who used an unrealistically large model person and an inaccurately high density of capillaries.
École spéciale de Lausanne, 1857 Louis Rivier, founding member of École spéciale de Lausanne. The roots of modern-day EPFL can be traced back to the foundation of a private school under the name École spéciale de Lausanne in 1853 at the initiative of Louis Rivier, a graduate of the École Centrale Paris and John Gay, the then professor and rector of the Académie de Lausanne.
Nuclear energy on the website of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE). Maps of nuclear power reactors: Switzerland. Preparing a seismic hazard model for Switzerland: The view from PEGASOS Expert Group 3. Nuclear power in Switzerland in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
Physics – branch of science that studies matter [9] and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. [10] Physics is one of the "fundamental sciences" because the other natural sciences (like biology, geology etc.) deal with systems that seem to obey the laws of physics. According to physics, the ...
The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is a multi-disciplinary research institute for natural and engineering sciences in Switzerland. It is located in the Canton of Aargau in the municipalities Villigen and Würenlingen on either side of the River Aare, and covers an area over 35 hectares in size. [2]
The Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa; German: Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt, [2] French: Laboratoire fédéral d’essai des matériaux et de recherche, Italian: Laboratorio federale di prova dei materiali e di ricerca, Romansh: Institut federal da controlla da material e da perscrutaziun,) is a Swiss research institution for ...