Edouard Wyss-Dunant | |
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| Born | 17 April 1897 |
| Died | 30 April 1983 (aged 86) |
| Citizenship | Swiss |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medicine |
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.
- ^ 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."