The Scientific Legacy of the 20th Century
Plenary Session 28 October - 1 November 2010
W. Arber, J. Mittelstrass, M. Sánchez Sorondo (eds)
Acta 21
Vatican City, 2011
pp. 376
ISBN 978-88-7761-101-7
Preview
Philosophical Foundations of Science in the 20th Century (PDF)
Jürgen Mittelstrass
SESSION I
The Explanatory Gap in Neuroscience (PDF)
Lucia Melloni & Wolf Singer
Great Discoveries Made by Radio Astronomers During the Last Six Decades and Key Questions Today (PDF)
Govind Swarup
SESSION II: PHYSICS
My Personal Experience on the Scientific Legacy of the 20th Century (PDF)
Antonino Zichichi
The Emergence of Order (PDF)
Walter Thirring
The Laser and How it Happened (PDF)
Charles H. Townes
SESSION III: EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT SCIENCES
Quantifying the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation Diversity at Large Spatial Scales (PDF)
Megan Konar, Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe
The place of Man in Nature – Epistemological Notes (PDF)
Jean-Michel Maldamé
The Discovery of DNA as a Contribution to Understand the Aristotelian Theory of Generation (PDF)
Enrico Berti
SESSION IV: CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
The Evolutionary Lottery (PDF)
Christian de Duve
Therapeutic Vaccines Against Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases (PDF)
Michael Sela
The Evolving Concept of the Gene (PDF)
Rafael Vicuña
Molecular Darwinism and its Relevance for Translational Genetic Research (PDF)
Werner Arber
Evo-Devo: the Merging of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology (PDF)
Edward M. De Robertis
New Developments in Stem Cell Biotechnology (PDF)
Nicole M. Le Douarin
Genomic Exploration of the RNA Continent (PDF)
Takashi Gojobori
Transgenic Crops and the Future of Agriculture (PDF)
Peter H. Raven
Genetic Engineering of Plants: My Experience With the Development of a Key Technology for Food Security (PDF)
Ingo Potrykus
SESSION V: NEUROSCIENCE AND IMMUNOLOGY
Discovery of the Defensive System of the Endothelium, the Lining of the Arterial Wall (PDF)
Andrzej Szczeklik
Intracellular Protein Degradation: From a Vague Idea thru the Lysosome and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System and onto Human Diseases and Drug Targeting (PDF)
Aaron Ciechanover
APPENDIX
Reflections on the Demographic Question and on Pastoral Guidance (PDF)
Bernardo Colombo
How to Become Science? The Case of Cosmology (PDF)
Michael Heller
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