Graduate students and Postdoctoral associates
- Rainer Dressler
- Louis Neuhaus
- Bruno Albrecht
- Knut Asmis
- Christophe Bulliard
- Olivier Schafer
- Anne-Christelle Sergenton
- Duška Popović
- Momir Stepanović
- Yvan Pariat
- Tomáš Skalický
- Svetlana Živanov
- Bogdan Ibanescu
- Olivier May
- Dušan Kubala
- Radmila Janečková
- Khrystyna Regeta
- Jaro Kočišek
- Juraj Fedor
Great thanks goes to all of them for many years of great collegiality, frienship, immense work and innovative force, as well as for correcting me in uncountable instances ...
The Mechanical Laboratory
- Emil Brosi
Emil (Milan) Brosi and his apprentices actually built the machines, in particular accomplished the many years lasting quest for the Spectrometer with Hemispherical Analysers. They built it - at least as much as I did. He contributed, apart from highly qualified mechanical work, innumerable ideas as how to do things seemingly impossible, an immense talent for improvisation.
He should be a co-author of all the papers.
The Electronics Laboratory
- Marcel Gremaud
- Paul-Hervé Chassot
- Olivier Graber
The same is true for initially Marcel Gremaud, then for Paul-Hervé Chassot and finaly for Olivier Graber with respect to the electronic components!!
(Olivier: I must yet find a photo of you - my appologies)
The "Administrative Laboratory"
- Verena Schwalm
- Maja Ivanović
For uncountable years, including difficult years, I would not have accomplished anything without Verena's constant collegiality and support! It appeared impossible that things would continue after Verena's retirement, but fortunately for me, the nearly impossible happened, and with Maja the most competent, helpful and friendly support arrived.
Professor Edwin Haselbach
- Fribourg Institute of Physical Chemistry
I would never have had the immense fortune to be allowed to spent all my carrier with something I liked as much as my hobby — without being employed by Edwin, at what was at that time "his" "Institut de Chimie Physique". And I would never have succeeded without his continued help and support, both personell and scientific.
Thomas Bally
Thomas was my closest colleague ever. It started with our undergraduate years in Basel and continued at the Physical Chemistry Institute also in Basel (albeit in two different research groups - Thomas with Prof. Haselbach, me with John Maier. It did not end there - we made postdocs at the same time at geographically close locations - Thomas at MIT, me at Yale. And it did not end there - 1980 we, thanks to Prof. Haselbach, both moved to Fribourg. All the years we had offices side-by-side, many years we even lived side-by-side!
I received from Thomas a great support in work and life. It is immensely sad that he left us prematurely and is no longer here to read these lines ...
February 2020 (MA)