Pier Luigi Luisi (born 23 May 1938) is an Italian

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe th ...

and

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. He received the "

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" title from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ). He worked there as a scientist from 1970 until 2003, and as a Professor of

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

from 1980 until he departed. Luisi then moved to the

Roma Tre University Roma Tre UniversityUniroma3.it
( it, Università degli Studi Roma Tre) is an Italian Biochemistry Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology and ...

, where he worked until 2015. In 1985, Luisi founded the ''Cortona Week'', an international summer school.

Personal life

Pier Luigi Luisi was born on 23 May 1938. He is now a retired professor and lives in

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, Portugal.

Education

Luisi graduated with a chemistry degree from the

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students. It was founded in 1810 wi ...

Books

*''The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision'' (with

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) Cambridge University Press, 2014, translated in several languages. The Italian edition was published by Aboca, 2014, under the title ''Vita e Natura - Una visione sistemica''. *''The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology'' Cambridge University 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, ,

References

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