Alberto Piazza (18 October 1941 – 18 May 2024) was an Italian human geneticist who was Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Turin.[1]
Biography
editBorn into a Jewish family in Turin,[2] professor of Medical statistics at the University of Turin, professor of Genetics at the University of Naples, and professor of Human Genetics at the University of Turin.[1]
A disciple of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, in 2001 he published a monumental study concluding that the human races do not exist and that all humans belong to a unique species.[3]
Piazza died on 18 May 2024, at the age of 82.[4]
Works
edit- (with Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Paolo Menozzi) The history and geography of human genes, Princeton University Press, 1994.
References
edit- ^ a b "Alberto PIAZZA" (in Italian). Turin: Accademia delle Scienze. 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
- ^ Bolino, Francesca (February 23, 2019). "Alberto Piazza "Quella volta a Evian dove abbiamo capito che la razza non esiste"". La Repubblica (in Italian). Rome: GEDI Gruppo Editoriale. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
«Sono nato a Torino nel 1941 e appartengo a una famiglia ebraica.»
- ^ Gianluca Sartori (May 20, 2024). "Muore a Torino Alberto Piazza, il genetista che demolì il concetto di «razza». Fu lui ad affermare che «il Dna italiano non esiste»". Turin: Il Corriere della Sera.
- ^ "Morto il genetista Alberto Piazza, professore dell'Università di Torino: demolì il concetto di "razza"". notizie.virgilio.it (in Italian). 2024-05-21. Retrieved 2024-05-22.
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