Giorgio Parisi

Italian physicist (1948-) · Italy · On the map · Scientists

Giorgio Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems.

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2021Clarivate Citation LaureatesAwardNobel Prize in PhysicsAwardWolf Prize in PhysicsAward2018Pomeranchuk PrizeAward2016Lars Onsager PrizeAward2015High Energy and Particle Physics PrizeAward2011Three Physicists PrizeAward2007Microsoft AwardAward2005Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical PhysicsAward2002Enrico Fermi PrizeAward1999ICTP Dirac MedalAward1998Gold Medal for Merit in Science and CultureAward1992Boltzmann MedalAward1986Feltrinelli PrizeAward1948Born4 August 1948

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Parisi with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in 2021

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Wolf Prize in Physics2021

Nobel Prize in Physics2021

Clarivate Citation Laureates2021

Pomeranchuk Prize2018

Lars Onsager Prize2016

High Energy and Particle Physics Prize2015

Three Physicists Prize2011

Max Planck Medal2011

Microsoft Award2007

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics2005

Enrico Fermi Prize2002

ICTP Dirac Medal1999

Gold Medal for Merit in Science and Culture1998

Boltzmann Medal1992

Feltrinelli Prize1986

Lagrange Prize

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His best known contributions are the QCD evolution equations for parton densities, obtained with Guido Altarelli, known as the Altarelli-Parisi or DGLAP equations, the exact solution of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses, the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation describing dynamic scaling of growing interfaces, and the study of whirling flocks of birds. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe for groundbreaking contributions to theory of complex systems, in particular "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales".

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