Gratitude to the University of Geneva faculty.

Thank you for becoming, 464 years after Calvin founded this university, the first woman to lead it, and for bringing a family lawyer's care for real people into the rectorate.

Thank you for solving problems about phase transitions that had resisted for decades, for the joy you visibly take in doing mathematics with others, and for bringing a Fields Medal home to Geneva.

Thank you for building HARPS and ESPRESSO, the quietest listening instruments humanity owns, precise enough to hear an Earth-mass planet tugging on the nearest star, and for leading Geneva astronomy in the tradition it invented.

Thank you for hunting cosmic neutrinos from Antarctic ice to mountaintop telescopes, and for building the silicon photosensor instruments that let Geneva read the high-energy universe in more than one messenger.

Thank you for teaching trees to testify: four hundred papers of tree-ring evidence on floods, debris flows and a warming cryosphere that help mountain communities prepare for the climate already arriving.

Thank you for finding 51 Pegasi b in 1995 and proving that the night sky is full of other worlds, a discovery made from Geneva that changed humanity's place in the universe and earned the Nobel Prize.

Thank you for sending quantum keys under Lake Geneva in 1995 and opening the era of long-distance quantum communication, and for co-founding ID Quantique so that quantum security left the lab and entered the world.

Thank you for standing at the bedside where medicine meets moral difficulty, defending the most vulnerable patients, and for lending Switzerland your clear ethical voice when the pandemic demanded it.

Thank you for decoding how the noncoding genome quietly regulates our biology, and for building the Health 2030 Genome Center so that genomic medicine reaches real Swiss patients, not just journals.

Thank you for taking emotion seriously as science, showing how feelings steer attention, memory and decision, and for building Geneva's affective sciences center into the place the world looks to understand what moves us.

Thank you for holding the chair of Jean Starobinski with a poet's ear and a philosopher's precision, and for your translations of Calvino that let French readers climb into the trees with the Baron once more.

Thank you for a lifetime spent insisting that even war has law, from ICRC delegations to the Geneva Academy, and for the casebooks from which the world's humanitarian lawyers learned how law protects in war.