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History
- Retrospective - Zurich 1991
Heureka
Zurich - Heureka Auditorium
 At
the heart of a picturesque landscape, Zurich is a good example
of "little big city" in which it is possible to enjoy the
advantages and standards associated with a great metropolis.
Zurich's attractiveness was thoroughly appreciated by artists
such as Richard Wagner and James Joyce, who spent many years
of their lives by its river Limmat.
However, it is to science that Zurich owes a great part of
its fame. In 1855 the Polytechnicum in Zurich (ETH) is founded,
and it very soon attracts key German figures like Rudolf Clausius.
Clausius would actually get to define entropy and the second
law of thermodynamics during his period at the ETH.
And then Albert Einstein came along. He may arguably be called
the outstanding scientist of the twentieth century we have
just left behind. Originally German, Einstein would become
the flag bearer of Switzerland around the world. Part of his
core work was produced in Zurich. 
There is a remarkable absence of glorification of the past
in the city, and therefore its inhabitants boast that they
erect neither monuments for geniuses nor build pyres for heretics.
In spite of that, a small plaque can be spotted on Unionstrasse
4 in order to designate the house where Albert Einstein lived
while at the ETH. As an anecdote, it must be said that Einstein
applied for admission to the ETH in 1896, but failed the entrance
examination the first time.
PRIZE
WINNERS
FIRST
PRIZES
Robert
Nitzschmann : "Development and construction of a scanning
tunneling microscope" D
Barry
O'Doherty - Daniel Dundas: "The dynamics of a two-well potential
oscillator" IRL
Paul
Hoffmann : "Computer assisted text conversion to Braille"
L
Angus
Filshie: "Clearway : a mucus extractor" UK
Christian
Tost - Sabine Zang: "Catalytic converter restoration" A
Torkild
Jensen: "Birdlife in Oslofjord" N
Hans
Jacob Feder : "Earthquake as a self-organized critical process"
N
SECOND
PRIZES
Tania
Hinrichs - Hussein Morsy - Axel Conrad : "The knight's hamiltonian
path problem" D
Nicolas
Bouche - Olivier van der Aa : "Flight study of a micro-rocket"
B
Valerio
Arnáiz - José Mora - Alexandre Girones: "Astrometria: the
measurement of comet positions" E
Henk
Hoekstra - Christiaan Kok: "Oscilating systems of chemical
reactions" NL
Edwin
Thaller - Friedrich Pfluegelmeier : "Intelligent testing probe"
A
Christof
Teuscher - Flavio Stragiotti: "Aiolos II : development of
a wind measuring computer system" CH
COMETT
PRIZES
Robert
Nitzschmann: "Development and construction of a scanning tunneling
microscope" D
Angus
Filshie: "Clearway: a mucus extractor" UK
Martin
Hairer: "Electrical Circuitry Simulation" CH
NOBEL
TRAVEL AWARD
Stefano
Radam: "The graphite furnace in S. O. A. P." I
USA INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR TRAVEL AWARD
Hans
Jacob Feder: "Earthquakes as a self-organised critical process"
N
Paul
Hoffmann: "Computer assisted text conversion to Braille" L
Valerio
Arnáiz - José Mora - Alexandre Girones: "Astrometria: the
measurement of comet positions" E
JURY
MEMBERS
Fritz
Paschke
Alfred Frennet
Thor Bak
Mireille Polvé
Werner Ratmayer
Galo Ramírez
Joseph Lahr
Augusto Barroso
Christos Louis
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
Fiorella Padoa Schioppa
Dervilla Donnelly
Verena Meyer
Maurits Geerlings
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