Nobel Physics: awarded Giorgio Parisi, that’s who the Italian physicist is

For two weeks he had entered the ranking that is considered the antechamber of the Nobel. There is little left as today the most prestigious award has arrived for him. Giorgio Parisi, born in Rome on August 4, 1948, is among the Nobel laureates along with Syukuro Manabe e Klaus Hasselmann who dealt with global warming and climate change.

Giorgio Parisi was awarded «for innovative contributions to the understanding of complex physical systems». His award-winning research concerns “The discovery of the interaction between disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from the atomic to the planetary scale”. The prize, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, has a value of approximately 900 thousand euros. “I’m happy, I didn’t expect it,” he said.

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2021 #NobelPrize in Physics to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.” pic.twitter.com/At6ZeLmwa5

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2021

Parisi joined the summit this year Clarivate Citation Laureates, the list of researchers whose publications are among the most cited and considered in the world. He is president of the class of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences of the Accademia dei Lincei, he is full professor of theoretical physics at the La Sapienza University of Rome, where he studied, and associate researcher of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics.

Giorgio Parisi – awarded this year’s #NobelPrize in Physics – discovered hidden patterns in disordered complex materials. His discoveries are among the most important contributions to the theory of complex systems. pic.twitter.com/ggdbuauwcY

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2021

He received the award Wolf in 2021, the Boltzmann Medal in 1992, the Dirac Medal for theoretical physics in 1999 and the Max Planck Medal in 2011. He was president of the Accademia dei Lincei from 2018 to 2021.

Her searches they range from elementary particles to statistical mechanics, from fluid dynamics to condensed matter, from supercomputers to complex systems such as neural networks. As a physicist should do he dealt with all matter.

“I dealt with so many different things,” he explained in an interview, “In the 1970s I studied the Higgs boson, to understand how to design the experiments that would have discovered this particle in 2012. In the 1980s, I did research that underlies neural networks. Today I deal with complex materials such as glass. It is composed of many particles of different nature that must integrate with each other. The brain is also made up of very varied neurons that need to work in a connected way. Understanding how each part of a complex system connects with the others is fundamental, for example, to develop artificial intelligence ».

In the last two years his contributions have also gone in the direction of analyzing the diffusion of Covid, which defined the first pandemic that man was able to curb. “Science,” he told Republic, “Is no longer seen as the way to improve one’s future. It is losing value. We live alongside highly developed technologies, but the science behind them is often not understood. It almost seems like things work out by magic. We should try to teach the basics from kindergarten».

The first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in physics was Guglielmo Marconi in 1909. After him, Enrico Fermi, Carlo Rubbia and Riccardo Giacconi.