Nils Aall Barricelli

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Nils Aall Barricelli (born 1912, died 1993) was a Norwegian-Italian mathematician.

Barricelli's early computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution are considered pioneering in artificial life research. Barricelli held a residency at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey in 1953, 1954. and 1956. [1]. His later career was spent 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]

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  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

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