Ancel Keys (1904 - 2004), an American physiologist, lived for 28 years in Pioppi, studying the Mediterranean diet, in a place overlooking the Greek colony of Elea (a locality he named Minnelea, a portmanteau from Minnesota and Elea).
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With industrial design by Ettore Sottsass, it was leased to about 40 individual customers, of which the first (Elea 9003/01) was installed at the textile company Marzotto and second (Elea 9003/02) to Monte dei Paschi di Siena.