University of Basel facts for kids
The University of Basel (German: Universität Basel) is in Basel, Switzerland. It was founded on 4 April 1460 and is the oldest university in Switzerland.
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The old main building of the University of Basel, which with its arcades in the middle takes up the lines of the first Italian university in Bologna
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Erasmus of Rotterdam, Renaissance humanist
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Paracelsus, physician and alchemist
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Jacob Bernoulli, mathematician
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Leonhard Euler, mathematician and physicist
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Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
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Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist
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Karl Jaspers, philosopher and psychiatrist
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Tadeus Reichstein, chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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Werner Arber, microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
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In Spanish: Universidad de Basilea para niños