Giorgio Parisi, Nobel Prize in Physics, 2021

Giorgio Parisi (born 4 August 1948) is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. 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 the "physical modeling of earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming."

Career highlights

Giorgio Parisi received his degree from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1970 under the supervision of Nicola Cabibbo. He was a researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (1971–1981) and a visiting scientist at the Columbia University (1973–1974), Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (1976–1977), and École Normale Supérieure (1977–1978). From 1981 until 1992 he was a full professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and he is now professor of Quantum Theories at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is a member of the Simons Collaboration "Cracking the Glass Problem". In 2018 he was elected president of the Accademia dei Lincei.

Honors and awards

• Member, Accademia dei Lincei and a
• Foreign member, French Academy of Sciences,
• Foreign member, American Philosophical Society,
• Foreign member, National Academy of Sciences (USA).
• 1989 - Feltrinelli Prize, 1986.
• 1992 - Boltzmann Medal, 1992.
• 1999 - Dirac Medal of the ICTP.
• 2002 - Enrico Fermi Prize, 2002.
• 2005 - Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
• 2005 - Nonino Prize “An Italian Master of our Time”.
• 2007 - Microsoft Award.
• 2009 - Lagrange Prize.
• 2011 - Max Planck Medal.
• 2013 - Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science – Italy
• 2015 - High Energy and Particle Physics Prize - EPS HEPP Prize.
• 2016 - Lars Onsager Prize.
• 2018 - Pomeranchuk Prize.
• 2021 - Wolf Prize in Physics.
• 2021 - Nobel Prize.

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