Together with Maurice Solovine, the three founded the Olympia Academy, an informal circle of friends who met together in Bern from 1902 to 1904 to discuss physics and philosophy.
He studied mathematics and physics in Zurich, Munich and Berlin, earning a doctors degree in 1903 at Bern, writing a dissertation on series of circles by Steiner.
[11] Habicht taught university master's level mathematics and physics 11 years at Schiers in the Canton of the Graubünden where he also played violin.
[12] Habicht and Einstein invented a meter for measuring very small electric potentials in millivolts with Conrad's brother Paul.
[15] Habicht wrote and published a book in Swiss German, biography of Gustav Kugler 1874-1939 a Rector of the Schaffhausen Canton school.