From Maja Strasser
No wonder people tend think that all Swiss are bankers and watchmakers when Swiss scientists (as well as artists) are attributed German, French or Italian nationality depending on the sound of their names. Conrad Gessner/Gesner was a Swiss naturalist and savant, born and educated in Zurich (16 October, p 50).
He was a doctor in Zurich and founder of the city’s first botanical garden, corresponding with some of the major European Renaissance scientists on topics as diverse as botany, zoology, medicine, pharmacology, classical philology, theology and linguistics
Bern, Switzerland
