Background
Dietliker was born on December 3, 1949 in Zurich, Switzerland; the son of Paul Dietliker and Hanna Dietliker-Tschopp.
Dietliker was born on December 3, 1949 in Zurich, Switzerland; the son of Paul Dietliker and Hanna Dietliker-Tschopp.
Dietliker received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Zurich in 1980.
Dietliker began his career as a research chemist at Ciba-Geigy AG (nowadays Ciba Specialty Chemicals Inc.) in 1982. Since 1998, he has been a senior research fellow at Ciba Specialty Chemicals Inc. in Basel, Switzerland.
Dietliker was a member of American Chemical Society and Swiss Chemical Society. He was a president of Swiss Society for Photochemistry and Photophysics from 1993 to 1994 and chairman of Grammaticakis-Neumann Price Committee from 1995 to 1996.
On March 30, 1981 Kurt Dietliker married Dai Nam Fung. They have a child.