Seeing Colour

Nora Loebe studied painting in Dortmund, Germany and in Dornach, Switzerland before developing and building touring exhibitions on Goethe's theory of colour. She is currently a freelance artist and also works at the Swiss Science Centre Technorama in Zurich, Switzerland. Matthias Rang studied physics in Freiburg, Germany and Berlin before becoming a visiting researcher in the field of nano-optics at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He received a PhD from the University of Wuppertal, Germany and carries out research on Goethe's theory of colour in relation to physical optics at the Goetheanum, Switzerland, where he currently co-leads the Natural Science Section. Troy Vine completed a PhD in particle physics at University College London with research undertaken at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, USA. He is currently doing a PhD in philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a thesis focussing on methodology and ontology in the colour investigations of Descartes, Newton, Goethe and Wittgenstein. Vine is currently an Associate Researcher at The Field Centre, near Stroud, UK. Arthur Zajonc is a renowned physicist, respected author and Emeritus Professor of Physics at Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA. Zajonc has written extensively on Goethe's science work and is author of Catching the Light, co-author of The Quantum Challenge, and co-editor of Goethe's Way of Science, among many other books.