Branco Weiss

Branco Weiss (23 April 1929 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia – 31 October 2010 in Zurich, Switzerland) was a Swiss entrepreneur and patron.

Weiss was born into a Jewish family from the Austrian province Burgenland which had settled in Croatia.

[1] While growing up in a town on the shore of Lake Constance, he studied literature, art and history and developed an interest in natural sciences.

Subsequently, he enrolled at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and graduated there with a degree in chemical engineering in 1951.

[8] The institute consists of 12 schools that promote learning competencies and thinking abilities to students and teachers.

[12] In 2009 fellow Riley Crane together with his research team at MIT won the DARPA Network Challenge.

The Pentagon Prize was organized by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for developing new ways to understand how information is spread through social networks.