Albert Einstein (1879-1955) beat such greats as Red Cross founder Henry Dunant, and educationalist Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in a survey conducted for the SonntagsZeitung newspaper, whose results are published in this Sunday's issue.
Einstein, who is best known for the theory of relativity which he developed in 1905 when employed by the patent office in Bern, came to Switzerland at the age of 17 and completed his education in the country.
He moved definitively to the US in the 1930s, and took US citizenship in 1940, although he never gave up the Swiss citizenship he had acquired in 1901. More...
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