The first Italian physicist has made
the 'Nobel hunters' list of the Clarivate Citation Laureates
classifiation, sources said Wednesday.
Giorgio Parisi, 73, is president of the class of Physical,
Mathematical and Natural Sciences of the prestigious Accademia
dei Lincei.
He is a lecturer in theoretical physics at Rome's La Sapienza
University and associate researcher at the National Nuclear
Physic Institute (INFN).
He was cited by the Clarivate group for his "revolutionary
discoveries relating to quantum chromodynamics and the study of
complex disordered systems".
Before Parisi, an Italian born American citizen, Mario Capecchi,
made the list in 2006, a year before winning the Nobel for
medicine.
Born in Rome in 1948, Parisi joined the National Rsearch Council
in 1971, became an INFN researcher in 1973 and had stints abroad
at Columbia University (1973-1974), the Institut des Hautes
Études Scientifiques at Bures-sur-Yvettes (1976-1977), and at
the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (1977-1978).
He was president of the Accademia dei Lincei from 2018 to
earlier this year.
He is credited with making breakthroughs in several areas of
physics including the study of elementary particles, statistical
mechanics, fluid dynamics, condensed material and
supercomputers.
He has published some 600 articles ranging from complex systems
such as nerve networks to the immune system and the movements of
animal groups.
During his long career he won two grants from the European
Research Council (ERC) and some of the most prestigious
scientific prizes including the Boltzmann Medal (1992), the
Dirac Medal for Theoretical Physics (1999), the Max Planck
Medal (2011), and the Wolf Prize (2021).
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