The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne was founded in 1969. In this short time, it has become one of the most innovative research centers in the world, having so far garnered one Nobel Prize in chemistry. Its state-of-the-art campus clearly shows that the institute’s focus is on the future.
While it may not be the oldest research institution in Switzerland – that privilege belongs to Basel – the University of Zurich, which was founded in 1833, has generated some of the world’s most illustrious scientists, including Albert Einstein and Erwin Schroedinger, who have changed the way we understand the world.
Created more than 50 years ago, the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has been a hothouse of innovation since its inception. In its new building, a stone’s throw from the Novartis Campus, there is an atmosphere of...
...corporate cool combined with the chaotic coziness of curious post-docs in their 20s and 30s.
The lab of the future on the Novartis Campus may already be a decade old. But its open-space setting as well as the freshness of its colors still makes this research workspace stand out for its collaborative design, which will remain an important anchor to drive science in the years ahead.
Health Safety and Environment managers might get a shock if someone snacked in a laboratory today as chemists Emil Walder and Oskar Knecht (right) did in the freshly minted Sandoz laboratories in 1910. That’s what high-tech was more than a century ago.