Keeping a cool head at a time of global warming

30th March 2009

Giovanni Caprara

Corriere della Sera’s scientific editorial office

Biography

Giovanni Caprara, a journalist and writer, is the editor in chief of Corriere della Sera’s scientific editorial office. In 2000, he won the “ConScientia” Prize (best scientific journalist) awarded jointly by four Milan Universities: Statale, Bocconi, Politecnico and Cattolica. In 1984, he was awarded the Glaxo-CEE Prize for science popularization. In 2000, Harvard University International Astronomical Union named “Giovanni Caprara” a small planet orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in recognition of his astronomical and space popularization activity at international level. He has authored many essays, articles, books, speeches and books translated into English, German and Spanish and which won him several international awards.