The tenth edition of the Literary Award for the Galileo science is to Paul Gallina with the book “The soul of the machines” (2015 Daedalus) . 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).
VOTES. Paul Gallina got almost half of the votes of the jury of students, consisting of 67 classes high school by 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.
CEREMONY. Over 600 students from high schools across Italy filled the hall of the palace della Ragione in Padua, where we held the awards ceremony conducted by journalists Marcello Veneziani and Elisa Billato.
PIERO ANGELA. the event is was opened by 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.
EXTRAORDINARY THINGS. “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 now and in the coming decades will bring even more shocking news, requiring you to stay one step ahead. I envy you a bit ‘because you are entering the prime of your life and you will see extraordinary things. “
BOOK winner. The essay “The soul of the machines” revolves around a hypothesis unpopular: 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, adopts a simple and linear style, sometimes funny, seasoned with many examples, such as “torture of an ant”, “comics manga” and “pursuit of happiness.”
jURY. 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), Carlo 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).
AWARD Galileo. The Galileo Literary Prize for popular science edition 2016 is sponsored by the city of Padua, with the patronage of the Ministry for arts and culture and tourism, the Region of Veneto, the Foundation Il Campiello and Galilean Academy of Sciences, Letters and arts in Padua and in collaboration with the university of Padua.
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