Rudolf Maag was born on August 17, 1922 in Binningen, Switzerland, Switzerland. Rudolf Maag, the son of a butcher, built a fortune in medical devices. He got an M.B.A. from Insead in 1973 and began working his way up the corporate ladder at pharmaceutical company Sandoz AG of Switzerland. Eventually he moved to dental giant Straumann, where in 1990 he bought out the company's medical device division and later took it public as Stratec Medical. In 1999 he merged Stratec with Swiss medical device powerhouse Synthes and built up a 15% stake in the company, which was later sold to Johnson & Johnson. His most valuable stake is in Swiss pharma company Actelion, which is set to also be acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2017. Maag bought the luxurious Bellevue Hotel in 2012 with his son-in-law from fellow Swiss billionaire Thomas Straumann, an heir to the company where Maag served as an executive a quarter century earlier.
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💰Rudolf Maag Net worth: $4.9 Billion
2015
$1.2 Billion
2016
$1.4 Billion
2017
$2.3 Billion
2018
$3.36 Billion
Biography/Timeline
1948
Haag was born in Tübingen, Germany. He studied Physics at Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, now the University of Stuttgart, from 1948 to 1954 and then worked on his dissertation in Munich. His supervisor was Fritz Bopp.
1956
From 1956 to 1957 he was at Max Planck Institute in Göttingen. After doing one year each as visiting professor at Princeton University and University of Marseille, he was professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for six years until 1966.
1965
In 1965 he founded the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics, which he guided as Chief Editor for eight years.
1970
He was awarded the Max Planck medal in 1970 and the Henri Poincaré Prize of the International Association of Mathematical Physics in 1997.
2016
It was reported by SZ Gedenken that Haag died on 5 January 2016 at the age of 93.
