Enrico Fermi Prize

The Enrico Fermi Prize, first awarded in 2001, is given by the Italian Physical Society (Società Italiana di Fisica). It is a yearly award of EUR 30,000 honoring one or more Members of the Society who have "particularly honoured physics with their discoveries."[1][2]

Recipients

Year Winner Recognition
2018Federico Capassofor seminal contributions to the physics of electronic and optical materials and their applications, ranging from the invention of the quantum cascade laser to the design of novel semiconductor materials, including metasurfaces
Lev Pitaevskiifor his longstanding contribution to theoretical physics, including the study of superfluidity in liquid helium and of Van der Waals-Casimir forces, as well as for the development of the Gross-Pitaevskii theory which is a fundamental block of the physics of quantum gases
Erio Tosattifor fundamental theoretical contributions aimed to understand the optical properties of solids, in particular of surface and transport phenomena, even in extreme conditions of dimensional confinement, high temperature and pressure
2017Gianpaolo Bellinifor the measurement of the solar neutrino spectrum, providing the evidence for nuclear hydrogen fusion in the sun and for adiabatic neutrino flavour conversion in matter
Veniamin Berezinskyfor his theoretical contributions to the cosmogenic production of ultra-high energy neutrinos, to high energy neutrino astronomy and to the solar neutrino problem
Till Kirstenfor the first observation of low energy solar electron neutrinos providing the first direct evidence of hydrogen fusion inside a star
2016Barry Barishfor his fundamental contributions to the formation of the scientific collaborations LIGO and LIGO-Virgo and for his role in addressing various technological and scientific challenges whose solution led to the first detection of gravitational waves
Adalberto Giazotto[3]for his decisive contributions in conceiving and realising the first interferometer with super-attenuators, Virgo, which made possible the quest for gravitational wave sources with an unprecedented sensitivity at low frequency
2015Toshiki Tajima for the invention of the laser-wakefield-acceleration technique which led to a large number of fundamental and interdisciplinary applications ranging from accelerator science to plasma physics and astrophysics
Diederik Wiersmafor the first observation of Anderson localisation and of anomalous transport phenomena described by Lévy statistics in the framework of his highly original research on light propagation in disordered media
2014Federico Fagginfor the invention of the MOS silicon gate technology that led him to the realization in 1971 of the first modern microprocessor
2013Pierluigi Campana for the outstanding results that the five large international collaboration experiments at the CERN LHC collider – LHCb, TOTEM, ATLAS, ALICE, CMS – have achieved during the first period of LHC data taking under the successful guidance of the awardees as spokespersons
Simone Giani
Fabiola Gianotti
Paolo Giubellino
Guido Tonelli
2012Roberto Carfor the discovery of a molecular dynamics method known the world over as the Car-Parrinello method. This method has been a breakthrough in the field of numerical simulations, with great impact in many interdisciplinary contexts both theoretical and experimental, ranging from material science to chemistry and biology
Michele Parrinello
2011Dieter Haidtfor their fundamental contribution to the discovery of the weak neutral currents with the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN
Antonino Pullia
2010Enrico Costafor the discovery of the X-ray afterglow of gamma-ray burst with the BeppoSAX satellite
Filippo Frontera
Francesco Iachellofor his contribution to the theory of atomic nuclei and, in particular, for the discovery of a rich variety of dynamical symmetries and supersymmetries
2009Dimitri Nanopoulosfor the discovery of fundamental phenomenological properties of grand unification and superstring theories
Miguel Ángel Virasorofor the discovery of an infinite-dimensional algebra of primary importance for the construction of string theories
2008Giulio Casatifor his understanding of the relationship between classical and quantum chaos also in relation to quantum computing
Luigi Lugiatofor the discovery of instability-driven structures in non linear light-matter interactions
Luciano Pietronerofor demonstrating the onset of fractal shapes in a variety of self-organizing phenomena
2007Milla Baldo-Ceolinfor her outstanding works on K-meson and neutrino physics
Ettore Fiorinifor his contribution to the discovery of weak neutral currents and to the study of solar neutrinos
Italo Mannellifor the demonstration of direct CP symmetry breaking in the K-meson decay
2006Giorgio Carerifor the discovery of quantum vortices in superfluid helium
Tito Arecchifor the first experimental demonstration of the statistical properties of coherent radiation
2005Sergio Ferrarafor his contribution to the discovery of the theory of supergravity
Gabriele Venezianofor his discovery of dual models, subsequently acknowledged as the theoretical basis for a string theory of quantum gravity''
Bruno Zuminofor his contributions to supersymmetry and supergravity theories
2004Massimo Inguscio for his contributions to the study of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, in particular for the realization of degenerate quantum mixtures of bosons and fermions, and the invention of new experimental techniques that allowed him to obtain the first Bose-Einstein condensation of 41K atoms
2003Nicola Cabibbofor his theory of down- and strange-quark mixing in weak decays, in which the well-known parameter called "Cabibbo angle" plays a key role
Raoul Gattofor his pioneering works in the field of strange-particle weak decays and for his role of leader in this fundamental field of subnuclear physics
Luciano Maianifor having introduced, together with S. Glashow and J. Iliopoulos, the so-called GIM mechanism which, predicting the existence of the fourth quark, allowed to solve the problem of flavour-changing neutral currents
2002Giorgio Parisifor his contributions to field theory and statistical mechanics, and in particular for his fundamental results concerning the statistical properties of disordered systems
2001Antonino Zichichifor his discovery of the first example of nuclear antimatter (the antideuteron) and for his works that paved the way to the discovery of the charged heavy lepton

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