Zurich in the Interwar Period

The atlas holds 6 people and 7 moments here, from 1921 to 1933. The most recorded lives are Lars Onsager, Thomas Mann and David Hilbert.

David Hilbert
in 1923
1 moment here
German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics whose career began in Königsberg and was centered at the University of Göttingen from 1895 until…
Erwin Schrödinger
in 1921
1 moment here
Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose work on wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation became foundational to quantum…
Hermann Hesse
in 1925
1 moment here
German-Swiss poet, novelist, essayist, and painter. Hesse’s documented life moved between Württemberg, Switzerland, Italy, and Southeast Asia:…
Lars Onsager
from 1925 to 1926
2 moments here
Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist whose career took him from Norway and Switzerland to major American universities.…
Lev Landau
in 1930
1 moment here
Soviet theoretical physicist Lev Davidovich Landau was born in Baku, educated in Baku and Leningrad, and undertook formative research travel in…
Thomas Mann
in 1933
1 moment here
German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…