Talk:ETH Zurich

message: ETH Zurich is building up Science City, so I think it would be important to mention it in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.162.179.150 (talk • contribs) 18:18, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Science City, the name is not used anymore.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gürkan Myczko (talk • contribs) 09:34, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Science City

message: In the article it says that "The main building was constructed in the 1860s in the heart of the city".
Can anybody knowledgeable with the historical development of Zurich confirm this? I thought that at the time there were few buildings in the region near the main building, and only afterwards in the later 19th century many others were built around it, but I don't know for sure.
So at the time it might not really have been in the heart of the city. Paolo 13-mar-2006. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.132.63.41 (talk • contribs) 17:46, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Main Buildings

message: What is the emblem of the university? ArchonMeld 23:12, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There isn't more than just this simple logo  -- Firefox13 12:09, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Seal

message: What does the ETH have to do with the European Institute of Technology? Matteo 10:06, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: EIT

message: Article says: "Sometimes, the annually Erstsemestrigenfest takes place at extraordinary locations, for example the Zurich Airport."
Unless I am mistaken, reason that the ESF has been moved the last 2 years (Maag event-hall, then the airport) is due to fire regulations and too many students, not just a desire to surprise the visitors as the above quote implies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.35.31.33 (talk • contribs) 23:42, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, maybe I wasn't quite clear. I also think that the location was quite cool, but the "sometimes... takes place at extraordinary locations" does imply that usually it is in one particular place but sometimes exceptionally at others. However the ESF is almost certainly not going to be in the polyterasse again, because of the famous fire safety rules. I suggest something like "Due to fire  safety regulations and the high number of participants, the annual Erstsemestrigenfest no longer takes place in the ETH itself and has been held in a number of unusual locations over the past few years - for example, the Zürich airport. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.132.208.60 (talk) 16:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: ESF

message: "The regular time to reach graduation is six semesters for the Bachelor of Science degree and three further semesters for the Master of Science degree. The last semester is dedicated to writing a thesis."
These are recommended times. Bachelor/Master is quite new; first year should just have graduated. Any statistics on number of people who have to do a semester or two more? This will probably not be uncommon in, say, D-INFK. Just number of people who need to repeat the basisjahr  will have an  effect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.35.31.33 (talk • contribs) 23:47, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What is the length of a "semester" at the ETH? Half a year, 18 weeks or what?--TGC55 (talk) 14:03, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: 3 month or so - it doesn't really matter. Important thing is that there are 2 per year, hence repeating a semester means an extra 1/2 year until graduation in best of cases.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.35.31.33 (talk) 14:42, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Time to Graduation

message: article says acronym "ETH" is not expanded in English and thus offical name is "ETH Zürich" But citation provided is link to definition of uniform address format (to make the postman's life easier), which is not the same thing as the offical name.  As far as I know offical english name is "Swiss Federal Institute of Technology"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.35.31.33 (talk • contribs) 23:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: As it stands there are 3 photos of the main building.  They are very nice photos, but I think that usefully one of them, could be replaced with a photo of the Hoenggerberg "science city". Anyone agree? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.132.45.71 (talk • contribs) 16:39, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Eth logo.gif

message: Why is the CERN not mentioned anywhere? Many physicists work together with cern! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.58.243.213 (talk • contribs) 06:53, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Research Institutes

message: Should something about finding places and building/room/floor naming be mentioned? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.58.243.213 (talk • contribs) 06:53, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Orientation

message: Should details on computers, operating systems, dns/hostnames, stats, clusters be listed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.58.243.213 (talk • contribs) 06:53, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Computers

message: Eating at ETH facilities?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gürkan Myczko (talk • contribs) 09:42, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: http://www.gastro.ethz.ch/locations/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.33.98.12 (talk • contribs) 09:06, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Food, Mensa

message: I'm not happy about this section that has just been copied into this article. When this center doesn't deserve its own article, then better delete it and don't impair this article. Now we can read more about this Center that I've never heard of (as ETH student) than about the history of the university. -- Firefox13 (talk) 08:48, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  BWI Center for Enterprise Sciences 

message: The coordinates need the following fixes:
* Write here
WebCam Zp 1,818 f9dürich Sity Street Party 31.08.2010
Bandwidth (signal processing)
83.79.94.194 (talk) 14:02, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Coords appear to be correct, no specific correction suggested. — TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 16:10, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error 

message: Why have the rankings been removed? Surely these should be included, as is the case with the pages of the worlds other top universities.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.242.205.23 (talk) 09:39, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Rankings

message: The section Main polytechnics in Europe occurs a bit alien to the article, at least to me when I read it. IMO, if such a list is used, it should constitue a seperate article, and a link to it could be placed under the See also section in the ETH Zurich article. Furthermore, it is not clear on which criteria the list is formed. And strangely, as it stands, ETH Zurich is not included in the list. Georg Stillfried (talk) 09:26, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I fully agree. I would remove it. Marra (talk) 07:39, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main polytechnics? 

message: Hello Sapphorain, this message because I saw your removed some content stating that Albert Einstein was not a graduate from ETH Zurich. However, when I look for sources on the internet, most of them would say that he studied in ETH from 1896 until 1900.
Please find attached the following links: [] [] []
Let me know what you think, thank you. 
Manuelaklein (talk) 08:40, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello Manuelaklein. Yes, it is true that Einstein studied at ETH. However, he did not graduate from ETH but from the University of Zurich in 1904, simply because the ETH could not (i.e., was not permitted) to deliver PhD's at that time. In Zurich only the University of Zurich could. The first PhD's by ETH were delivered in 1909, under the impulsion of its then president Jérôme Franel. Sapphorain (talk) 13:59, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Einstein - Graduate from ETH Zurich or not? 

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message: Named reference cancel Bertolino Salvatore  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.254.243.155 (talk) 07:59, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carta di identita nome Renato Tronchetti Provera 

message: B.I Bankitalia B.C.E  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.254.243.155 (talk) 08:01, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
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message: From Artificial heart  
===Soft Artificial Heart===
On 10 July 2017, Nicholas Cohrs and colleagues presented a new concept of a soft total artificial heart in the Journal of Artificial Organs.   The heart was developed in the Functionals Materials Laboratory at ETH Zurich.   (Cohrs was a doctoral student in a group led by Professor Wendelin Stark at ETH Zurich.)   
Peter K Burian (talk) 21:53, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the artificial heart research at ETH covered in this article? 

message: On 10 July 2017, Nicholas Cohrs and colleagues presented a new concept of a soft total artificial heart in the Journal of Artificial Organs.   The heart was developed in the Functionals Materials Laboratory at ETH Zurich.   (Cohrs was a doctoral student in a group led by Professor Wendelin Stark at ETH Zurich.)   
Peter K Burian (talk) 21:53, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Soft Artificial Heart

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