What is Life? Perspectives from Biology and Philosophy

Speaker: Prof. Paul Nurse, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Christof Rapp

Paul Nurse is a British Nobel Prize-winning geneticist and currently President of the Royal Society London. He previously served as Director of the Francis Crick Institute in London and as President of Rockefeller University (2003–2011). In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of key regulators of the cell cycle. With his book What is Life (2020), he has made his research available to a wider audience. Christof Rapp is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at LMU and Director of CAS, where he currently serves as co-speaker of the CAS Research Focus “Meaning of Life”.

The event is part of the CAS lecture series “The Meaning of Life“, the CAS Research Focus “Speciation,” and the “BMC Trailblazer Lectures“.

Video Recording

If you click to view this video your personal data will be transmitted to YouTube and cookies may also be stored on your device. LMU has no influence over how any such data is transmitted or indeed over its further usage.

More information available here: LMU data protection policy, data protection policy from YouTube / Google

I acknowledge that I have read and understood the information concerning the protection of my data and am willing to display the embedded content despite potential risks.

Registration

Registration is required for participation. If you are interested in our event, please contact us: info@cas.lmu.de