The University of Pisa meets the Nobel Foundation

10 May 2019
10:00

Pisa – Palazzo della Sapienza
Aula Magna Storica

10:00 Paolo Maria Mancarella Rector, University of Pisa
Welcome
10:15 Lars Heikensten Executive Director, Nobel Foundation
Some lessons from the history of the Nobel Prize
11:00 Guido Tonelli Full Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Pisa
What is mass
11:20 Benedetta Mennucci Full Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Pisa
Lessons from nature about solar light harvesting
11:40 Piero Marchetti Full Professor of Endocrinology, University of Pisa
To die, to sleep – perchance to dream: rescuing the beta cell to cure diabetes
12:00 Q&A
12:30 Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi Vice Rector for European and International Research, University of Pisa
Concluding remarks