| DEUTSCH | ENGLISH | PROF. HANS ZIEGLER | TIMELINE | PUBLICATIONS | MEMORIES | ABOUT MY LIFE | OBITUARY | |
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1910 |
Born in Winterthur, SwitzerlandOn September 5th 1919 Hans Ziegler was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. There he visited all schools including gymnasium.Read more about it in his personal resume |
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1930–1936 |
Student at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)Student of Mechanical Engineering and of Mathematics and PhysicsDiploma in Physics |
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1936–1937 |
Assistant of Mechanics at ETH (Prof. Meissner)
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1937–1939 |
Research Associate of Prof. Grammel at TU Stuttgart, Germany |
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1938 |
Promotion at ETH: Dr. of Mathematical Sciences
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1939 |
Lecturer of Mechanics at ETH Zurich During Second World War Military Service in the Swiss Cavalry |
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1942–1977 |
Full Professor of Mechanics at ETH
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1948–1952 |
Chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Physics of ETH
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1956–1957 |
Visiting Professor at Brown University, Providence On board of the Rhinedam on the way to the USA, where Hans Ziegler was Visiting Professor at Brown University, Providence (Division of Applied Mathematics) and held a Summer Course at UCLA. |
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1963–1964 |
Jerome Clarke Hunsaker Professor at MIT, Cambridge Jerome Clarke Hunsaker Professor at MIT, Cambridge (Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Summer Course at UCLA |
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1970–1971 |
Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ohio State University Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ohio State University, Columbus (Dept. of Engineering Mechanics) Summer Course at Stanford University, California |
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1974 |
Promotion to Dr. -Ing. E.h. Promotion to Dr. -Ing. h. c. by the Technical University Munich |
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1977 |
Retirement from ETH
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1985 |
Death in Colorado On August 5th 1985 Hans Ziegler dies in his Retreat in Estes Park, Colorado. |