December 05, 2011
07:00 pm

CONFERENCE THE ITALIAN GENIUS AND THE WORLD INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

Italian Cultural Institute of New York
686 Park Avenue
10065 New York, NY
United States

Italy contributed heavily to the world’s industrial development of the
20th century through discoveries and inventions that influenced nations
such as the United States. Some of the most important historians of
science, technology and industry - both Italian and American - will take
part in a conference on how Italians were instrumental in the Second
Industrial Revolution.

Speakers:
Giovanni Dosi
(Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa)
Massimo Loda
(Harvard Medical School)
Arthur Molella
(Director, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation)
David C. Mowery
(Berkeley, Haas School of Business)
Vittorio Marchis
(Polytechnic of Turin)
Marco Segala
(CNRS, ENS-Paris)

6-7pm SECOND ANTONIO MEUCCI HONORARY LECTURE
Lamberto Maffei (President, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome)
Brain and Environment

Under the high patronage of the President of the Italian Republic

Co-organized with:
Accademia dei Lincei in Rome
In collaboration with: COTEC
Sponsored by Agusta Westland, ENEL, Farmindustria, Telecom Italia
with the contribution of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

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