ETH Zurich

ETH Zurich

Main building ETH Zurich
Type	Public
Established	1855
Budget	1,3 billion CHF [1]
Administrative staff	9,049
Students	15,093
Location	Zurich , Canton of Zurich , Switzerland
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	IDEA League, TIME, IARU, CESAER
Website	www.ethz.ch

ETH Zurich (German: [Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) or Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich is a science and technology university in Zurich, Switzerland. Locals sometimes refer to it by the name Poly, derived from the original name Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum or Federal Polytechnic Institute.

ETH is ranked among the top universities in the world. It is a founding member of the IDEA League and the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU).

ETH Zurich Media

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  View onto the main building from the Polyterrasse

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  ETH Zurich's main building at night

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  Albert Einstein's former student locker at ETH Zurich

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  Albert Einstein, 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for the photoelectric effect.

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  John von Neumann, polymath - pioneer in computing, quantum physics and game theory

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  Wolfgang Pauli, 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics for the Pauli-Exclusion principle.

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  Fritz Haber, 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Haber-Bosch Process

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  Niklaus Wirth, 1984 Turing Award winner for the programming language Pascal

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  Alessio Figalli, 2018 Fields Medal for his work on partial differential equations