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3D camera enters the picture

This content was published on Dec 12, 2001 Experts say the camera is unique because not only is it small and relatively cheap to produce, but it has no moving parts and is able to cope with a range of distances. “Such cameras will get smaller and more affordable and will eventually be as ubiquitous as today’s digital still and video cameras,” says…

Roche boss seeks better growth in US

This content was published on Dec 12, 2001 Hummer told the Swiss biweekly journal “Finanz und Wirtschaft” that “Further efforts are still needed in order to grow in the United States in line with the market”. The interview followed Roche’s announcement on Monday that it would buy 50.1 per cent stake in Japanese drug firm, Chugai Pharmaceuticals. Humer said the Japanese acquisition would…

Industry given tax incentive to clean up its act

This content was published on Dec 11, 2001 Under the Swiss CO2 law, companies have the choice of investing in cleaner technologies, or paying a so-called carbon tax, to help the country meet its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 10 per cent compared with 1990 levels. In the ideal scenario, says the Swiss Environment Agency, the tax would never be implemented.…

Swiss biotech start-up takes root in the US

This content was published on Dec 10, 2001 Just 18 months after it was set up, GeneProt is building and equipping a new facility in North Brunswick, New Jersey, to study the molecular patterns and sequences of human proteins. At 80,000 square feet, the site is significantly larger than the firm’s Geneva facility (50,000 square feet), and will more than double the research…

Roche plans major expansion in Japan

This content was published on Dec 10, 2001 Roche reported on Monday it was going to buy a majority stake (50.1 per cent) in the Chugai Pharmaceutical Company and would invest 155 to 198 billion yen (SFr2 – 2.6 billion). Under the terms of the alliance, the two will create a new enterprise from the merger of Nippon Roche and Chugai. A statement…

Lausanne seminar remembers Swiss historian

This content was published on Dec 9, 2001 Born in Bern, von Salis was an intellectual from an aristocratic and cosmopolitan family background who, as a writer and historian, earned international respect for the integrity of his views. Often they were provocative. “Non-European observers such as Americans, Russians and Chinese,” he wrote, “can sometimes understand the situation of Europe better than the Europeans…

Swiss students need to brush up ABCs

This content was published on Dec 9, 2001 The Swiss students fared worse than children in countries such as Finland, Australia and Canada when the Swiss Conference of Directors of Education tested some 10,000 students. The study revealed that many Swiss children have a poorer knowledge of science than their counterparts abroad, although they are well versed in mathematics. These are the initial…

Swiss sociologist awarded Leibnitz Prize

This content was published on Dec 8, 2001 Hengartner, who hails from canton St Gallen, is famous for his research in a wide range of scientific and cultural fields. He is currently serving as a professor of sociology at the University of Hamburg, but began his career in the Swiss capital, Bern. Among his most notable achievements are his published works on religious…

Bouw promises to retain strengths of Crossair

This content was published on Dec 7, 2001 Bouw, who is a former boss of KLM from the Netherlands, said he had been “really impressed” by Thursday’s marathon meeting of Crossair shareholders in Basel, where he was elected. He said had much respect for Crossair staff in their support for their boss and founder of the airline, Moritz Suter, who stepped down in…

Doubt over Higgs boson existence dismissed

This content was published on Dec 6, 2001 The latest edition of the “New Scientist” magazine quotes researchers who have analysed data from CERN’s Large Electron Positron (LEP) accelerator as saying the Higgs boson “probably does not exist”. “It’s rubbish,” said John Ellis, a leading theoretical physicist at CERN, the European nuclear research centre, just outside Geneva. “The New Scientist has picked up…

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