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Turin was born in Beirut, Lebanon on 20 November 1953 into an Italian-Argentinian family, and raised in France, Italy and Switzerland. His father, Duccio Turin, was a UN diplomat and chief architect of the Palestinian refugee camps, [1] and his mother, Adela Turin (born Mandelli), is an art historian, designer, and award-winning children's author. [2]
The Guide received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, which said, “The book brings [the authors'] exquisite connoisseurship to life in a contagious manner.Their passion for a few scents and their outrage at the others' failings make for entry after entry of hilarious, catty comments interspersed with occasional erudite, eloquent disquisitions."
It is set to be played on indoor hard courts at the Inalpi Arena in Turin, Italy for the fifth consecutive time, and would be the season-ending event for the highest-ranked singles players and doubles teams on the 2025 ATP Tour. The tournament is due to be the 56th edition of the singles event and the 51st edition of the doubles competition.
The result was what Luca Turin called '[...]the only fluff-free fragrance contest in the world [11] '. There are two artisan category winners out of ten finalists, two independent category winners out of ten finalists, and one Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent winner out of five finalists per year.
The vibration theory of olfaction, created in 1938 by Malcolm Dyson [47] but reinvigorated by Luca Turin in 1996, [48] proposes that the mechanism for the sense of smell is due to G-protein receptors that detect molecular vibrations due to inelastic electron tunneling, tunneling where the electron loses energy, across molecules. [48]
The vibration theory of smell proposes that a molecule's smell character is due to its vibrational frequency in the infrared range. This controversial theory is an alternative to the more widely accepted docking theory of olfaction (formerly termed the shape theory of olfaction), which proposes that a molecule's smell character is due to a range of weak non-covalent interactions between its ...
Luca Turin; Abby Howe Turner; J. Scott Turner; W. Torkel Weis-Fogh This page was last edited on 29 November 2023, at 18:58 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Dave Turin, a gold miner featured in the Gold Rush television series; George L. Turin (1930-2014) U.S. computer scientist; John J. Turin (1913-1973), American physicist; Luca Turin (b. 1953), biophysicist and proponent of the vibration theory of olfaction; Mark Turin (b. 1973), linguistic anthropologist; Niels Turin Nielsen (1887-1964) Danish ...