List of Swiss inventions and discoveries

The following list is composed of items, techniques and processes that were invented by or discovered by people from Switzerland.

Biology

 * Nucleic acid, DNA by Friedrich Miescher (1868)
 * Restriction endonuclease by Werner Arber
 * Research of the Immune system by Rolf M. Zinkernagel

Chemistry

 * Laudanum by Paracelsus
 * Aluminium foil by Robert Victor Neher
 * Cellophane by Jacques E. Brandenberger
 * DDT by Paul Hermann Müller
 * Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) by Albert Hofmann
 * Reichstein process by Tadeus Reichstein
 * Glyphosate by Henri Martin

Clothes and Fashion

 * Velcro by George de Mestral

Computing

 * El Beso (Pinacoteca de Brera, Milán, 1859).jpgter mouse by René Sommer, co-inventor
 * Smaky by Jean-Daniel Nicoud
 * programming language Pascal by Niklaus Wirth
 * World Wide Web at CERN

Cuisine

 * Muesli by Maximilian Bircher-Benner
 * White chocolate by Nestlé And his Partner
 * Immersion blender by Roger Perrinjaquet
 * Hazelnut chocolate by Charles-Amédée Kohler
 * Conching by Rudolf Lindt
 * Milk chocolate by Daniel Peter (disputed)
 * Absinthe

Economics

 * Discovery of economic cycles and propagation of Social policy against the classic liberal economy by Simonde de Sismondi
 * Bank secrecy

Medicine

 * Laudanum by Paracelsus
 * Diclofenac (Voltaren) (1973, company Ciba-Geigy)
 * Panthenol (Bepanthen) (1944, company Roche)

Military

 * Swiss Army knife
 * Full Metal Jacket bullet

Physics

 * Argand lamp by Aimé Argand
 * Twisted nematic field effect by Hoffmann-La Roche
 * Scanning tunneling microscope by Heinrich Rohrer (co-inventor with German Gerd Binnig)
 * Super-twisted nematic display by Brown, Boveri & Cie
 * Swatch Internet Time by Swatch
 * Research on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance by Kurt Wüthrich

Sports

 * Bobsleigh
 * Schwingen
 * Hornussen

Technology

 * Constant escapement by Girard-Perregaux
 * Cross-beat escapement and remontoire for watches by Jost Bürgi
 * LCD projector at Brown Boveri & Cie
 * Riggenbach rack system by Niklaus Riggenbach
 * Solar Impulse by Bertrand Piccard in co-operation with EPFL
 * Tourbillon by Abraham-Louis Breguet
 * Turbocharger by Alfred Büchi

Transportation

 * Bathyscaphe Trieste by Auguste Piccard
 * Articulated locomotive by Anatole Mallet
 * Diesel electric locomotive traction control by Hermann Lemp

Miscellaneous

 * The Red Cross by Henry Dunant
 * Helvetica Typeface by Max Miedinger