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Ursula Wyss (born 8 February 1973 in Davos) is a Swiss politician, economist and urban planner. She represented the Canton of Bern in the Swiss National Council as member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) from 6 December 1999 to 3 March 2013. From January 2013 to December 2020 she was an executive member (Gemeinderätin) of the ...
The Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States of America (French: Ambassadeur de Suisse auprès des États-Unis d'Amérique, German: Botschafter der Schweiz in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, Italian: Ambasciatore della Svizzera agli Stati Uniti d'America, Romansh: Ambasciatore da Svizra a las Stadis Unids da l’America) is the representative of the government of Switzerland in ...
Ursula Mauch (née Widmer; born 29 March 1935) is a Swiss chemist, educator and politician who served on the National Council (Switzerland) from 1979 to 1995. [1] She was the first female member to represent the Canton of Aargau constituency. She previously served on the Grand Council of Aargau from 1974 to 1980 for the Social Democratic Party.
Ursula Rickenbacher, who sparked the special occasion category with her Ursula of Switzerland label, died Wednesday at her home in Troy, N.Y. Rickenbacher, who was believed to have been in her 80s ...
Ursula Schneider Schüttel (German pronunciation: [ˈʊʁzula ˈʃnaɪ̯dɐ ˈʃʏtəl]; née Schneider; born 26 November 1961) is a Swiss politician who served on the National Council from 2012 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2023 for the Social Democratic Party. [1]
Ursula Keller (born 21 June 1959) is a Swiss physicist. She has been a tenured physics professor at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland since 1993. [1] A pioneer in ultrafast science and technology, [2] she is known for inventing the semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM), enabling passive mode-locking of lasers and revolutionizing ultrafast laser applications in science and industry. [3]
Koch was born Ursula Pomeranz on 1 July 1941 in Zurich, Switzerland to a stateless Jewish father originally from Poland and Swiss-born Maria Elisabeth Pomeranz (née Hanhart; 1914-2004). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She grew up in Stäfa on Lake Zürich and graduated from the teacher training college there before spending a year on exchange at the University of ...
Below is a list of presidents of the Swiss Confederation (1848–present). It presents the presiding member of the Swiss Federal Council , the country's seven-member executive. Elected by the Federal Assembly for one year, the President of the Confederation chairs the meetings of the Federal Council and undertakes special representational duties.