Edouard Wyss-Dunant

Edouard Wyss-Dunant
Born(1897-04-17)17 April 1897
Died30 April 1983(1983-04-30) (aged 86)
CitizenshipSwiss
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine

Edouard Wyss-Dunant (17 April 1897 – 30 April 1983) was a Swiss physician and alpinist. He had a distinguished career in medicine, both in his own country and abroad.[1] He published a number of treatises in his professional capacity and was the author of several mountaineering books. He is best known for his leadership of the Swiss Expedition to Everest of 1952.

  1. ^ K2: the 1939 tragedy Andrew J. Kauffman, William Lowell Putnam - 1992 "Edward Wyss-Dunant (1897-1983), a radiologist and physiologist, was a resident of Geneva who climbed mostly in the Oberland."

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