Paul Hen wins Galileo 2016
Posted May 9, 2016
Paul Gallina with the book “the soul of the machines” won the tenth edition of the literary Prize for popular science Galileo
Paul Gallina with the book “the soul of the machines” (2015 Daedalus) has won the tenth edition of the literary Prize for the Galileo science , organized by the Culture of the Municipality of Padua in collaboration with the University of Padua. The book Hen, professor of Robotics at the University of Trieste, has passed the order “against nature. GMOs in organic “Dario Bressanini and Beatrice Mautino (Rizzoli 2015),” What time do you have? “Till Roenneberg (2015 Daedalus),” Numbers “by Umberto Bottazzini (2015 Il Mulino) and” The Phantom of the Universe. What is the neutrino “They vote for Lucia (2015 Carocci).
Paul Gallina got almost half of the votes of the jury of students, consisting of 67 high school classes from as many provinces across Italy, from Bolzano to Syracuse. The winning book was selected the five finalists, selected by the scientific jury chaired by the psychiatrist, sociologist and writer Paul Crepet.
More than 600 students coming from high schools across Italy have filled the hall of the Palazzo della Ragione in Padua, where we held the awards ceremony conducted by journalists Marcello Veneziani and Elisa Billato.
the event was opened by the delivery of the keys of the City of Padua by the mayor Massimo Bitonci to Piero Angela . Padua is “grateful for the contribution of excellence given to science, through the results achieved as a journalist, writer and television presenter, a forerunner of particularly innovative communication formulas”, he said the mayor read out the motivations of the award.
“the real tool to face the future is your mind – said Piero Angela addressing the students who filled the hall -. Technology has changed our lives and society, and in the coming decades will bring even more shocking news, prompting you to stay one step ahead. I envy you a little ‘because they are entering the prime of your life and you will see extraordinary things. “
The honorary citizen of Padua, thanking the city for approval, has been likened to a diamond Padua: “Change light depending on how you look at it, presenting excellence in many fields, in science, art and religion,” . He recalled the figure of Galileo as “first great popularizer of modern science.”
The winner Book
The essay “The Soul machine “revolves around unpopular hypothesis: we need machines and technology as love and oxygen. The author gives body to the thesis describing both the technology and the machines, which tend to become more and more “human-like”, both the man’s emotional relationship with the car. Strong of an active field research, the author mixes irreverence and balance scientific cases in everyday experiences of domestic life, providing a framework unexpected and compelling of our technological dependence. To achieve this end, it adopts a simple and linear style, sometimes funny, seasoned with many examples, such as “torture of an ant”, “comics manga” and “pursuit of happiness”. At the end of this scientific journey, the reader will come to understand the mechanisms by which the conscious and subconscious human mind adapts to robots to digital products and the numerous virtual reality systems that mankind has built around himself.
Presidents
Paul Crepet, tenth President of the scientific jury of the Galileo Prize, has susseguito in this job to people of science and culture as Umberto Veronesi (first president), Charles Rubbia, Margherita Hack, Paolo Rossi, Mario Tozzi, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Paco Lanciano, Nicoletta Maraschio and Vittorino Andreoli.
The previous winners:
2015 – The reality is not as it appears. The elementary structure of things by Carlo Rovelli (Routledge);
2014 – The bonobo and the atheist. Looking for humanity among primates Frans De Waal (Routledge);
2013 – The DNA meets facebook. Journey into the supermarket of genetic Sergio Pistoi (Marsilio);
2012 – The Wonderful World of Alex Bellos numbers (Einaudi);
2011 – There is room for everyone. The big story of Piergiorgio Odifreddi geometry (Mondadori);
2010 – Vaccines global era of Rino Ruppoli and Lisa Vozza (Zanichelli);
2009 – Energy for Spaceship Earth Nicola and Armaroli Vincenzo Balzani (Ed. Zanichelli);
2008 – If the man had wings Andrea Frova (ed. RCS books – BUR);
2007 – Why Science? Luigi Luca and Francesco Cavalli Sforza (Mondadori).
The prize offered opportunities for discussion between the popularization of scientific literature theme and young people not only because of competition and the main events, but also with side initiatives stimulate curiosity, critical thinking and synthesis skills of high school students and university. Thanks to the competitions “Science in the 30 lines” and “Reviewing the Science” many young people are put to the test by writing their comments on the finalists books. This year the class II and the Liceo Classico Tito Livio of Padua participated devoting to each selected book the analysis of a group of students. In addition, more than fifty young people from across Italy have contributed to the discussion on books by writing comments on the official Facebook page of the Award.
The Galileo Prize
The Galileo Literary Prize for science 2016 edition is sponsored by the City of Padua, under the patronage of the Ministry of heritage and Culture and Tourism of the Veneto Region, the Foundation Il Campiello and Galilean Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts in Padua and in collaboration with the University of Padua.
the Prize Galileo has the support of Antonveneta Foundation. Sponsor: pharmaceutical Fidia spa. With the collaboration of: APS Advertising, Auriga, Hotel Galileo, Morellato – Jewelry a living, Promovies, Noleggiami.eu, Cicap, INAF, Padua Planetarium, EF Education First. Media sponsors: Rai Radio 3, Focus, Coelum, Bo, Vivi Padova, Bue.it Radio, Radio Company, Planck.
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