Giorgio Prodi
Giorgio Prodi was an Italian medical scientist, oncologist and semiotician.
He studied medicine and chemistry in the University of Bologna. From 1958, he taught general pathology and experimental oncology. From 1973, he was the Director of the Institute of Cancerology.
He has published a series of books on philosophy of medicine and biology. Together with Thomas Sebeok and Thure von Uexküll, he has developed a semiotic approach in biology in his works of the 1970s and 1980s.
For his honour, there exists in the University of Bologna.He is the brother of Giovanni Prodi, Vittorio Prodi and Romano Prodi.
