Pier Luigi Luisi
Encyclopedia
Pier Luigi Luisi is an Italian chemistry professor, who has worked in Switzerland.
When he is not doing science, Natural scientist
Pier Luigi Luisi looks for the purpose of life within the structure and function of life itself., and extrapolate life's purpose from the activities of living organisms.
He graduated in Pisa
.
He holds the view the natural scientists
should look for the purpose of life within the structure and function of life itself.
Luisi has suggested that the concepts of "purpose" offered by science are a "mere mental construction" which depend on the social and religious traditions of individuals in the scientific community.
In 1985 Luisi founded the "Cortona Week", an international, multi-discipline conference that studies "Natural Sciences and the Wholeness of Life". Currently he is director of the Synthetic Biology and Supramolecular Chemistry Laboratory and professor in the Biology
Department at the Roma Tre University.
When he is not doing science, Natural scientist
Natural science
The natural sciences are branches of science that seek to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world by using empirical and scientific methods...
Pier Luigi Luisi looks for the purpose of life within the structure and function of life itself., and extrapolate life's purpose from the activities of living organisms.
He graduated in Pisa
Pisa
Pisa is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa...
.
He holds the view the natural scientists
Natural science
The natural sciences are branches of science that seek to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world by using empirical and scientific methods...
should look for the purpose of life within the structure and function of life itself.
Luisi has suggested that the concepts of "purpose" offered by science are a "mere mental construction" which depend on the social and religious traditions of individuals in the scientific community.
In 1985 Luisi founded the "Cortona Week", an international, multi-discipline conference that studies "Natural Sciences and the Wholeness of Life". Currently he is director of the Synthetic Biology and Supramolecular Chemistry Laboratory and professor in the Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
Department at the Roma Tre University.
Books
- The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
- Giant Vesicles (Perspectives in Supramolecular Chemistry) Written with Peter Walde
External links
- http://www.plluisi.org/
- http://www.cts.cuni.cz/conf98/luisi.htm
- http://www.plluisi.org/luisi.html
- http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.pier.luigi.luisi