Giorgio Parisi#
| Membership Number: | 2723 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://chimera.roma1.infn.it/GIORGIO/indexhome.htm |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1992 - Professor of Quantum Theories at the University of Rome I, La Sapienza
- 1981 - 1992 Full professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Roma II, Tor Vergata
- 1977 - 1978 Visiting scientist at the École Normale Supérieure
- 1976 - 1977 Visiting scientist at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
- 1973 - 1974 Visiting scientist at the Columbia University
- 1971 - 1981 Researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati
Fields of Scholarship
- Phase transitions and statistical mechanics
- Computers construction
- Non-equilibrium statistical physics
- Neural networks theoretical immunology
- Elementary particles
- Mathematical physics and string theory
- Disordered systems
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
"for groundbreaking "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales." The prize was awarded "for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems" with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann and the other half to Giorgio Parisi
- 2021 Wolf Prize in Physics
- 2018 Pomeranchuk Prize
- 2018 Elected president of the Accademia dei Lincei
- 2016 Lars Onsager Prize
- 2015 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize - EPS HEPP Prize
- 2013 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science – Italy
- 2011 Max Planck Medal
- 2009 Lagrange Prize
- 2007 Microsoft Award
- 2005 Nonino Prize “An Italian Master of our Time”
- 2005 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
- 2002 Enrico Fermi Prize
- 1999 Dirac Medal of the ICTP
- 1992 Boltzmann Medal
- 1986 Feltrinelli Prize
- Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei, of the French Academy of Sciences, of the Accademia dei XL and of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.
