Luca Turin is a biophysicist with a brilliant mind that has the wonderful ability to think out of the box. Luca Turin is not only a scientist with creative ideas but also a parfume reviewer of the New York Times. So, he has not only got a special mind but a special nose too!
Scent is known as an ancient sense developed in all mammals with high similarities.
But how does smelling work, how do the receptors in our nose process the signals they receive from myriads of molecules, and what does it mean if things smell the same even if they are made out of the most different matter and even if they look so very different as if they had nothing in common.
Luca Turin works on the proof of a new theory of scent based on the vibration frequencies of molecules. He is so to speak analyzing our nose spectroscope ;-). His scientific oeuvres is based on the work of Wright and Dyson who brought up this idea first.
