Italy's Giorgio Parisi on Tuesday won a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Rome-born Parisi, 73, won the prize for his research on complex
systems.
A theoretical physicist at Rome's La Sapienza University and the
National Nuclear Physics Institute (INFN), Parisi is also vice
president of the Accademia dei Lincei.
He shared the prize with Syukuro Manabe of Japan and Germany's
Klaus Hasselmann.
The two researchers won for their work on climate models and
global warming.
Italy has now won 20 Nobels including 12 for science and two for
women: Grazia Deledda for literature in 1926 and Rita Levi
Montalcini for medicine 60 years later in 1986.
The last prize for a researcher born in Italy was in 2007, for
Mario Capecchi, but you have to go back 62 years for an Italian
researcher who did the bulk of his work in Italy, Giulio Natta
in 1959.
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