Scientists and Engineers
- Alexander Emanuel Agassiz (1835–1910), geologist and zoologist
- Louis Agassiz (1807–1873) zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists
- Othmar Ammann (1879–1965) civil engineer
- Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840–1914) archeologist
- Felix Bloch (1905–1983) physicist
- Armand Borel (1923–2003) mathematician
- Florian Cajori (1859–1930) mathematician
- Hans R. Camenzind (1934-2012) inventor of the 555 timer IC
- Albert Einstein (1879–1955) theoretical physicist widely regarded as the most important scientist of the 20th century and one of the greatest physicists of all time
- Edmond H. Fischer (1920 - ) biochemist
- Walter Gautschi (1927 - ) mathematician
- Otto Frederick Hunziker (1873–1959) dairy educator and technologist
- Adolf Meyer (1866–1950) psychiatrist
- Jean Piccard (1884–1963) scientist and high-altitude balloonist
- Louis François de Pourtalès (1824–80) Naturalist
- Max Theiler (1899–1972) virologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing a vaccine against yellow fever
- Etienne Wenger (1952 - ) educational researcher
- David Alter (1807–1881) American inventor, almost discovered spectroscopy
- Josias Joesler (1895–1927) architect
- Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974) astronomer
- Robert Julius Trumpler (1886–1956) astronomer
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