Education
He graduated from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich in the late 1940s with a thesis titled: “Der Lias der Glarner Alpen”.
He graduated from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich in the late 1940s with a thesis titled: “Der Lias der Glarner Alpen”.
From 1947 to 1953 he spent his post-doctoral years in Lausanne before being appointed professor at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich in 1953. He would remain there until 1986. His research mainly concentrated on alpine geology.
However, he also published papers on extra-alpine regions like Greenland, the Montagne Noire and the Sahara.
He was the author of the reference book Geology of Switzerland. In 1978 he was elected a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
Many stratigraphic formations in the western Alps were first described by Trümpy. Foreign example, the Couches de l’Aroley, the Couches des Marmontains and the Couches de Street Cristoph.
National Academy of Sciences. French Academy of Sciences]
He is also a member of the French Academy of Sciences.