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Chronology of notable speakers

1985

Rupert Sheldrake, English author

Fritjof Capra, Austrian physicist

David Bohm, American physicist

Alexander Lowen, American physician and psychotherapist

Morris Berman, American historian and social critic

Albert Hoffmann, Swiss scientist and discoverer of the LSD

Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist

1988

Jim Nollman, American music composer and conceptual artist

Paul Watzlawick, Austrian-American therapist, psychologist and philosopher

1991

Chaturvedi Badrinath, Indian service officer and author

Hans Primas, Swiss chemist

1992

Terence McKenna, American ethnobotanist and mystic

Tullio Regge, Italian physicist

1996

William Irvin Thomson, American philosopher, cultural critic and poet

Iso Camartin, Swiss author and publicist

Andrew Lange, American astrophysicist

Eckhard Frick, German Jesuit, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst

2004

Stuart Kaufmann, American doctor, biologist and complex systems researcher

Luca Lombardi, Italian music composer

Shams Anwary-Alhosseyni, Iranian anthropologist and calligrapher

2005

Michel Bitbol, French philosopher

Luciano Pietronero, Italian physicist

Joan Halifax, American Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist and ecologist

2006

Elisabeth Blum, Swiss Architect and author

Matthias Jung, German philosopher and theologist

Wolfgang Mark, German philosopher

Marie Milis, Belgian mathematician and anthropologist of mathematics

Helmuth Milz, German medical doctor and researcher in psychosomatic medicine

Harry Nussbaumer, German astrophysicist

Michael Wallekzec, Austrian entrepreneur and coach

Robert Füchs, German chemist and Egyptologist

2007

Avshalom Elitzur, Israeli physicist and philosopher

Corrado Sinigaglia, Italian neuroscientist

Anton Zeilinger, Austrian physicist

John Casti, American author, mathematician and entrepreneur

Hanns Möhler, Swiss pharmacologist

2008

Chungliang Al Huang, chinese philosopher, dancer and performing artist

Rafael Nunez, cognitive scientist

Sam Keen, American author and philosopher

Wolf Singer, German neurophysiologist

Arthur I. Miller, American philosopher and science historian

Bruno Binggeli, Swiss Astrophysicist

Helmut Ringsdorf, German chemist

2009

Max Velmans, British phychologist of consciousness

Nahid Angha, Iranian Sufist scholar, author and human right activist

Bernard Lietaer, Belgian engineer, economist and author

Richard E. Ernst, Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate

2010

Hildegard Keller, Swiss professor of German literature

Vittorio Gallese, Italian physiologist and neuroscientist

Rinaldo Brutoco, Canadian corporate executive, entrepreneur and consultant

Siegfired Zelinsky, German media theorist

2011

Anton Gunziger, Swiss computer scientist and entrepreneur

Germàn Toro-Perez, Colombian music composer

Vittorio Ferrari, Italian computer scientist and philosopher

Victor Candia, Chilean musician and neuroscientist

2012

Florian Dombois, German artist

Elham Manea, Swiss-Yemenit Middle-east historian and human right activist

Thich Tien Son, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk and expert in Chinese medicine

2013

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Swiss science historian

John D. Liu, Chinese-American environmentalist

Joachim Simon, German chemist

Olaf Kübler, German physicist, consultant and ex-president of ETH Zürich

Gunhild Kübler, German philologist and author

Diego Hangartner, German pharmacologist, Buddhist monk

2014

Hortense Reintjens-Anwari, German anthropologist and ethnologist

Harmut Wickert, Sociologist and theater director

Harald Atmanspacher, German physicist

Roshi Enkyo O’Hara, American Zen abbot and teacher

2015

Hartmut von Sass, German theologist and philosopher of religion

Werner Stahel, Swiss mathematician

Hannes Grassegger, Swiss internet theorist and journalist

Thomas Meyer, Swiss musicologist

Richard Shiffrin, American neuroscientist

Sabine Harbeke, Swiss playwriter and lecturer

Ueli Grossniklaus, Swiss plant molecular biologist

Marcie Penner-Wilger, Canadian psychologist