The Italian Giorgio Parisi among the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021. The award was awarded “for innovative contributions to our understanding of complex systems” to American Syukuro Manabe and German Klaus Hasselmann “for physical modeling of the Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”. The other half of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi “for the discovery of the interaction between disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from the atomic to the planetary scale”.
“I didn’t expect it, but I knew it was possible a little bit and that’s why I kept the phone close because the prizes can be like cherries that, as they say, ‘one leads to another'”, jokes Parisi talking to the time.news. Parisi, in fact, among the other awards obtained in his career, on 22 September he joined the Clarivate Citation Laureates as one of the most cited scholars in the world in scientific publications, thus winning a sort of ‘nomination’ for the Nobel that received today.