Philosophical Foundations of Science in the 20th Century
Jürgen Mittelstraß
Session I
The Explanatory Gap in Neuroscience
Wolf J. Singer
Great Discoveries Made by Radio Astronomers During the Last Six Decades and Key Questions Today
Govind Swarup
Session II - Physics
My Personal Experience on the Scientific Legacy of the 20th Century
Antonino Zichichi
The Emergence of Order
Walter Thirring
The Laser and How it Happened
Charles H. Townes
Session III: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Quantifying the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation Diversity at Large Spatial Scales
Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe
The place of Man in Nature – Epistemological Notes
Jean-Michel Maldamé
The Discovery of DNA as a Contribution to Understand the Aristotelian Theory of Generation
Enrico Berti
Session IV: Cellular and Molecular Biology
The Evolutionary Lottery
Christian de Duve
Therapeutic Vaccines Against Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases
Michael Sela
The Evolving Concept of the Gene
Rafael Vicuña
Molecular Darwinism and its Relevance for Translational Genetic Research
Werner Arber
Evo-Devo: the Merging of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology
Edward M. De Robertis
New Developments in Stem Cell Biotechnology
Nicole M. Le Douarin
Genomic Exploration of the RNA Continent
Takashi Gojobori
Transgenic Crops and the Future of Agriculture
Peter H. Raven
Genetic Engineering of Plants: My Experience With the Development of a Key Technology for Food Security
Ingo Potrykus
Session V: Neuroscience and Immunity
Discovery of the Defensive System of the Endothelium, the Lining of the Arterial Wall
Andrzej Szczeklik
Intracellular Protein Degradation: From a Vague Idea thru the Lysosome and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System and onto Human Diseases and Drug Targeting
Aaron Ciechanover
Appendix
Reflections on the Demographic Question and on Pastoral Guidance
Bernardo Colombo
How to Become Science? The Case of Cosmology
Michael Heller
