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Cortona, Hotel Oasi

Cortona Week 2007

Ties & Webs

Ties & Webs

For thirty editions, Cortona Week took place in a former monastery on a Tuscan hillside with the support of ETH Zurich. Pier Luigi Luisi founded and directed it until he retired from ETH in 2003. Reinhard Nesper, ETH Prof of Chemistry led it until 2014, followed by Gerd Folkers, ETH Prof of Pharmaceutical Chemistry from 2015 to 2017. Each edition took up a question of its time: Perception. Utopia & Science. Metamorphosis. Borders & Limits. Beauty. Non Local. I. Reproducibility. Uncertainty & Serendipity. Concepts on the Move.

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People recorded for this edition

  • Avshalom Elitzur, 2007

    physicist and philosopher

  • Anton Zeilinger, 2007

    quantum physicist and Nobel laureate

  • Roald Hoffmann, 2007

    theoretical chemist, Nobel laureate and writer