Nils Aall Barricelli

Nils Aall Barricelli
Born	January 24, 1912(1912-01-24) Rome
Died	January 27, 1993(1993-01-27) (aged 81)
Nationality	Norwegian-Italian
Occupation	mathematician

Nils Aall Barricelli (1912–1993) was a Norwegian-Italian mathematician.

Barricelli's early computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution are considered pioneering in artificial life research. Barricelli, who was independently wealthy, held an unpaid residency at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey in 1953, 1954. and 1956.^[1] He later worked at the University of California, Los Angeles, at Vanderbilt University (until 1964), in the Department of Genetics of the University of Washington, Seattle (until 1968) and then at the Mathematics Institute of the University of Oslo. Barricelli published in a variety of fields including virus genetics, DNA, theoretical biology, space flight, theoretical physics and mathematical language.^[2]

References

1. ^ Dyson, George. 1997. Darwin Among the Machines. Reading, MA: Helix Books, p. 111
2. ^ Gulliksen, Tor. 1997. Email to George Dyson. The Reality Club on Darwin Among the Machines. Edge.org. http://www.edge.org/discourse/dysong_darwin.html

External links

• Barricelli's Universe (make-digital.com)
• George Dyson TED talk discusses Barricelli

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Name	Barricelli, Nils Aall
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Date of birth	1912
Place of birth	Rome
Date of death	died on the 27. of January 1993, 81 years old
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