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Scientific Report 2007-2009
Grants and Awards
Awards
Figure 1: left: Luciano Maiani, K.R. Sreenivasan and J. Iliopoulos; middle: Giorgio Parisi (second from the left) with (from
left) Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, Martin Taylor, vice president of the Royal Society, and
Jules Hoffmann, president of the Acadmie des sciences.; right: Paolo de Bernardis
Luciano Maiani
Dirac Medal, International Center of Theoretical Physics (ICTP)(shared with J. Iliopoulos), 2007
”For their work on the physics of the charm quark, a major contribution to the birth of the Standard Model, the
modern theory of Elementary Particles.”
Giorgio Parisi
Microsoft European Science Award, 2007
”For his significant contribution to the advancement of science through computational methods””.
Giovanni Gallavotti
The Boltzmann Medal (shared with K. Binder), 2007
”For honoring outstanding achievements in Statistical Physics.”
Luciano Pietronero
Enrico Fermi Prize, Società Italiana di Fisica, 2008
”For the demonstration of the presence of fractal structures in different self-organised phenomena”
Giorgio Parisi
Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize, 2009
Paolo de Bernardis
Dan David Prize - Astrophysics-History of the Universe - (shared with A. Lange and P. Richards), 2009
”For their contribution to the study of cosmic microwave background with successful balloon borne experiments
like BOOMERANG and MAXIMA.”
Miguel Angel Virasoro
Enrico Fermi Prize, Società Italiana di Fisica, 2009
”For the discovery of a fundamental infinity-dimensions algebra to be applied to strings theory”
Figure 2: left: Giovanni Gallavotti; middle: Miguel Angel Virasoro; right: Luciano Pietronero (on the left) with G. Casati
and L. Lugiato
Sapienza Università di Roma 207 Dipartimento di Fisica