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Sir Paul Nurse in conversation with Christof Rapp (LMU)
"What is Life? Perspectives from Biology and Philosophy"
Date: 17th April 2026, 4 pm c.t.
Venue: LMU Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Room A 140
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 London and as President of Rockefeller University (2003 to 2011). In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of key regulators of the cell cycle. He is also the author of What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology (2020).
Christof Rapp is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at LMU and Director of CAS, where he also serves as co-speaker of the CAS Research Focus “Meaning of Life”
Registration is required at the following link.
The event is part of the CAS lecture series “The Meaning of Life,” the CAS Research Focus “Speciation,” and the "BMC Trailblazer Lectures".
Following the lecture, all participants are cordially invited to a small reception in the „Lichthof".
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