What is Life? – A 21st century perspective
Exam Hall Trinity College Dublin. July 12th @19.30
As part of Dublin City of Science 2012 people will be given the opportunity to be part of what will be one of the greatest science events of the 21st century.
Dr. Craig Venter, one of the leaders of the Human Genome Project in the 1990s and a pioneer of synthetic biology will deliver a lecture entitled, “What is Life in the 21st Century?” on the evening of Thursday, 12 July in Trinity College Dublin, recreating the Irish event that inspired the discovery of the structure of DNA.
In February 1943, one of the most distinguished scientists of the 20th Century, Erwin Schrödinger, delivered a seminal lecture, entitled “What is Life?” under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, in Trinity College, Dublin.
The lecture presented far-sighted ideas on how hereditary information could be encoded in a chemical structure (aperiodic crystal) in living cells. Schrödinger’s book (1944) of the same title is considered to be a scientific classic. The book was cited by Crick and Watson as one of the inspirations which ultimately led them to unravel the structure of DNA in 1953, a breakthrough which won them the Nobel Prize.
