List of Swiss inventions and discoveries

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The following list is composed of items, techniques and processes that were invented by or discovered by people from Switzerland.

Astronomy

Biology

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DNA structure

Chemistry

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Cellophane bag

Clothes and Fashion

Computing

Construction

  • Construction machines
  • Structural steel reinforced concrete revolution by Robert Maillart at ETH Zurich[8]
    • three-hinged arch
    • deck-stiffened arch for bridges
    • beamless floor slab
    • mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings
  • Tunnel waterproofing by Sika[9]

Cuisine

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Dry muesli mix, served with milk

Economics

Mathematics

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Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler's work:

Bernoulli family

Jacob Bernoulli (1655–1705)

Jacob Bernoulli's work:

Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687-1759)

Nicolaus I Bernoulli's s contributions:

Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695-1726)

Nicolaus II Bernoulli's contribution:

Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782)

Daniel Bernoulli's contributions:

Other Swiss mathematicians

Medicine

  • Artificial hip joint (Sulzer joint, by Maurice Edmond Müller)[15]
  • Diazepam (Valium) (1958, company Hoffmann-La Roche)[6]
  • Diclofenac (Voltaren) (1973, company Ciba-Geigy)
  • Hydro-alcoholic gel (1995, Didier Pittet)
  • Hydrogel skin cancer treatment (2022, University of Bern)[24]
  • Laudanum by Paracelsus
  • Panthenol (Bepanthen) (1944, company Roche)
  • Stent (1986, Medinvent, Hans Wallsten)[6]
  • Theodor Kocher
    • Anesthesia
      • Masks to deliver chloroform-ether narcosis[25]
    • Surgical methodology
      • Hygiene rules[25]
      • Techniques of sterilisation[25]
      • Surgical records quantifying and analysing success and failures[25]
    • Surgical procedures
      • Pre-operative preparation of patients to receive anaesthesia to avoid aspiration of gastric content[25]
      • Reduction technique for shoulder dislocation[25]
      • Thiroidectomy[25]
    • Surgical tools

Military

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Victorinox "Huntsman" Swiss Army knife

Physics

Sports

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The Swiss bobsleigh team from Davos, ca. 1910

Technology

Transportation

Miscellaneous

See also

List of Swiss inventors and discoverers

Notes

  1. Jordan & Timaeus claims to have created milk chocolate using donkey milk in 1839 in Dresden[14]

References

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