Werner Gysin (* 1915, †1998) was a Swiss mathematician who introduced the Gysin sequence and Gysin homomorphism in his only published paper (Gysin 1942).

Gysin obtained his Ph.D from ETH Zurich in 1941 with a thesis written under the direction of Heinz Hopf and Eduard Stiefel.

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  • Gysin, Werner (1942), "Zur Homologietheorie der Abbildungen und Faserungen von Mannigfaltigkeiten", Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, 14: 61–122, doi:10.1007/bf02565612, ISSN 0010-2571, MR 0006511
  • Werner Gysin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project