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[edit] Population
Demography of the Swiss Alps
| Canton or region |
inhabitants |
% |
| Vaud |
&0000000000041357.00000041,357 |
2.3 |
| Fribourg |
&0000000000056553.00000056,553 |
3.2 |
| Valais |
&0000000000294608.000000294,608 |
16.7 |
| Bernese Oberland |
&0000000000194213.000000194,213 |
11.0 |
| Ticino |
&0000000000140668.000000140,668 |
8.0 |
| Central Switzerland |
&0000000000608761.000000608,761 |
34.5 |
| Eastern Switzerland |
&0000000000239850.000000239,850 |
13.6 |
| Graubünden |
&0000000000187920.000000187,920 |
10.7 |
| Total |
&0000000001763939.0000001,763,939 |
100 |
[edit] Science and education
The
Einstein Museum in
Berne. Albert Einstein discovered the special theory of relativity in
1905, while living in Berne.
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The first university in Switzerland was founded in 1460 in Basel, with a faculty of medicine. This place has a long tradition of chemical and medical research in Switzerland. Other large universities are the ETHZ in Zürich and the EPFL in Lausanne.
Many Nobel prizes were awarded to Swiss scientists, for example to the world-famous physicist Albert Einstein or more recently to Heinrich Rohrer also in the field of physics.
Geneva host the world's largest particle physics laboratory, the CERN. An other important research center is the Paul Scherrer Institute which belongs to the ETHZ.