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title: "ETH Zurich: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "ETH Zurich is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded by the Swiss federal government in 1854, the university primarily teaches and conducts research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-eth-zurich
type: Organization
wikidata: Q11942
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich
website: https://www.ethz.ch/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# ETH Zurich

> ETH Zurich is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded by the Swiss federal government in 1854, the university primarily teaches and conducts research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: Switzerland
- Founded: 1855-10-16
- Headquarters: ETH Zurich main building
- Status: private
- Website: https://www.ethz.ch/
- Also known as: E.T.H.Z., Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETH Zürich, ETH, Zürich, ETHZ, Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, SFIT, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Eidgenoessiche Technische Hochschule Zuerich

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/ETH
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eth-zurich
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRNo2gqj3GiHlmT_OnqkouA
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eth
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ethzurich

## Key people

- Joël Mesot, chair (Swiss physicist and president of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich), since 2019-01-01
- Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955))
- Carl Jung (Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961))
- Wolfgang Pauli (physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958))
- Fritz Haber (German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934))
- Otto Stern (German-American physicist (1888–1969))
- Felix Bloch (Swiss physicist (1905-1983))
- Peter Debye (Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist (1884–1966))
- Rudolf Clausius (German mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888))
- Hermann Weyl (German mathematician (1885–1955))
- Har Gobind Khorana (Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011))
- Hermann Minkowski (German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909))
- Richard Dedekind (German mathematician (1831–1916))

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: Institute for Biomedical Engineering

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on ETH Zurich, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-eth-zurich#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11942, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich

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