Pier Luigi Luisi

Pier Luigi Luisi (born 23 May 1938) graduated in chemistry from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and is an Italian Professor Emeritus from the ETHZ, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where he worked as a scientist from 1970 till 2003-as full professor in chemistry since 1980- to move then to the university of Rome3 as Professor of Biochemistry, till 2015. He is now retired, his official being residence in Tavira Portugal, his post address is still in Rome, via della Lungara 3, 00165 RM, which is the seat of the APS (Association for Social Promotion) Cortonafriends, of which he is the President.

Pier Luigi Luisi
Born (1938-05-23) 23 May 1938
NationalityItalian
Scientific career
Fieldschemistry,
InstitutionsRoma Tre university

In 1985 Luisi founded the "Cortona Week", an international, interdisciplinary summer school, under the general title " Sciences and the Wholeness of Life"-targeted mostly for graduate students and young managers, with the aim of forming a new class of society leaders, aware of the new frontiers of science, and also of the ecology, ethics and spirituality of life. The summer school is still going on yearly, see www.cortonafriends.org. In 2015, he started contributing on a monthly basis to the Wall Street International on-line journal, by publishing his more recent studies including philosophy of science and reportages. see for the english texts : https://wsimag.com/authors/492-pier-luigi-luisi and for the Italian language https://wsimag.com/it/authors/492-pier-luigi-luisi

Books
  • The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (with Fritjof Capra)Cambridge Univ.Press, 2014, translated in several languages. The Italian edition is from Aboca, 2014, titled Life and Nature
  • The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic BiologyCambridge Univ.Press, second edition 2016
  • Giant Vesicles (Perspectives in Supramolecular Chemistry) (with Peter Walde)
  • Mind and life: discussions with the Dalai Lama on the nature of reality, Columbia University Press, 2009, ISBN 0-231-14550-0, ISBN 978-0-231-14550-3

For a more complete list of the books, see the page on Amazon books under the name Pier Luigi Luisi. And to see the literature novels -including books for young adults- in italian, see the Amazon Italy under his name.

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References

to see prof. Luisi scientific references-over 600 peer reviewed papers-see his official site www.plluisi.org.

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