Born in 1938, Margrit Fischer-Hotz is a Swiss artist based in Zug. She began painting using mixed media in the second part of her life and developed an intense and inspired artistic career after the death of her husband, Walter E. Fischer [1], a renowned Swiss nuclear and particle physics scientist instrumental in founding the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) [2] in the late 1980s. Today the PSI is the largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences in Switzerland, conducting cutting-edge research in four main fields: future technologies, energy and climate, health innovation, and fundamentals of nature. Fischer-Hotz’s artistic work is largely inspired by research in physics, biology, and space sciences, and by the great scientists of the past century and of our time. She testifies below about her journey and her approach.
Walter E. Fischer, a theoretical physicist, was my husband. We spent the years...