Peter and Rosemary Grant in Rome at the Accademia dei Lincei

Peter and Rosemary Grant will be in Rome, Thursday 13 May 2010, at 4:30 p.m. at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Palazzo Corsini, Via della Lungara 10) for a Balzan Distinguished Lecture on The Evolution of Darwin’s Finches.

The meeting will be opened by Lamberto Maffei, President of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Bruno Bottai, Chairman of the International Balzan Foundation – “Prize” and Alberto Quadrio Curzio,  Chairman of the joint committee Balzan-Lincei-Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.

Academy members Giuseppina Barsacchi and Ernesto Capanna will speak after the two scientists give their lecture.

The Balzan Distinguished Lecture was first held at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei on the basis of an agreement was drawn up among the Balzan Foundation, Accademia dei Lincei and Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences to promote the spread of studies in the sciences and humanities of international scope.

Further information:

Peter and Rosemary Grant: “LIVE” EVOLUTION (download pdf)

International Balzan Prize Foundation