There is an Italian among the candidates for the victory ofl Nobel Prize in Physics: It is George Parisi, first in the ranking which usually anticipates the results of the highly sought-after recognition. A clear sign of how the illustrious physicist can really be awarded the prestigious award.
Towards the Nobel
In the prestigious Clarivate Citation Laureates ranking, usually decisive for the award of the Nobel Prize, there is also the Italian Giorgio Parisi, president of the class of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences of the Accademia dei Lincei and one of the leading scholars of our country.
Parisi was mentioned in the prestigious ranking for "the extraordinary discoveries related to quantum chromodynamics and the study of complex disordered systems" and now travels at full speed towards the Nobel Prize. The last Italian to be included in this ranking was Mario Capecchi in 2006, then winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2007.
The Nobel Prize will be awarded on 10 December 2021 and, after almost 20 years, an Italian could return to win recognition in the field of physics. The last was, in 2002, the Italian-American Riccardo Giacconi.
Who is Giorgio Parisi
Giorgio Parisi was born in 1948 and 1970 he graduated with a degree in Physics at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome. He began his scientific career at the Frascati National Laboratories of the Infn. After many study stays abroad, in 2018 he became president of the Accademia dei Lincei, one of the oldest scientific institutions in Europe, founded in Rome in 1603.
His studies are articulated through different fields of physics, from statistical mechanics to fluid dynamics and condensed matter. During his rich career he has won several prestigious scientific awards. Among the most important is certainly the Boltzmann Medal, the Dirac Medal for theoretical physics, the Max Planck Medal and the Wolf Prize. Now the Nobel can be the icing on the cake for Giorgio Parisi's extraordinary career.
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