ETH Zurich

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ETH Zurich is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland (in German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ)).

The ETH Zurich was opened in 1855 as a polytechnic institute, and for 114 years, until 1969, it was the only university in Switzerland.

In 2001, the student body comprises 11927 students, there's 330 professorships and 840 lecturers.

The ETH Zurich has brought forth 20 Nobel price winners, 11 of them in the field of chemistry. Most recently, Kurt Wüthrich has received the price in 2002 for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution.

Unlike most other universities, the ETH Zurich has no campus; instead, with it's various buildings and institutions spread all over Zurich, it is tightly integrated into the city.

See also: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne).

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