Othmar Ammann
1879 – 1965
Swiss

Structural engineer. His work in designing the George Washington Bridge in New York, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York, each one longer and more stupendous than the last, came to symbolize the glamour of American engineering.

Contemporaries
1898–1986Paul Tournier
1857–1913Ferdinand de Saussure
1884–1922Hermann Rorschach
1915–2005Brother Roger of Taize
1862–1945Leonhard Ragaz
1896–1980Jean Piaget
Born 1928Hans Küng
1875–1961Carl Jung
1877–1962Hermann Hesse
1828–1910Henri Dunant
1887–1965Le Corbusier
1818–1897Jacob Burckhardt
1857–1939Eugen Bleuler
1886–1968Karl Barth
1905–1988Hans Balthasar