Fritjof Capra: The Science of Leonardo

Recorded Live: Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007, 9:30 am PST

G U E S T :

• Fritjof Capra
  The best-selling author of The Tao of Physics explores the scientific achievements of the great Genius of the Renaissance and evaluates them from the perspective of twenty-first-century scientific thought.

Moderated by : The Very Rev. Alan Jones,
Dean of Grace Cathedral

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About the Program:

Fritjof Capra is the author of four international bestsellers, The Tao of Physics, The Turning Point, Uncommon Wisdom, and The Web of Life, among other works. He also cowrote the screenplay for Mindwalk, a film based on his books that starred Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, and John Heard, and was created and directed by his brother, Bernt Capra.

After receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966, Capra did research in particle physics at the University of Paris, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Imperial College, University of London, and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California. He also taught at U.C. Santa Cruz, U.C. Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.

In addition to his research in physics and systems theory, Capra has been engaged in a systematic examination of the philosophical and social implications of contemporary science for the past 30 years. His books on this subject have been acclaimed internationally, and he has lectured widely to lay and professional audiences in Europe, Asia, and North and South America.

Capra has been the focus of over 50 television interviews, documentaries, and talk shows in Europe, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, and Japan, and has been featured in major newspapers and magazines internationally. He was the first subject of the BBC's new documentary series "Beautiful Minds."