Award ceremony of the prestigious medal and the Nobel Prize 2021 diploma to the Italian professor and physicist Giorgio Parisi, today at the Sapienza University of Rome. The Nobel Medal award ceremony in Parisi takes place this afternoon at 18.00 in the Aula magna of the Rectorate of Sapienza, in the presence of by the Swedish Ambassador to Rome, Jan Björklund, by the Minister of University and Research, Maria Cristina Messa, and the Rector of the Sapienza University of Rome, Antonella Polimeni.
Due to the pandemic, in fact, the historic celebration will take place in a different form in Stockholm. On 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, the Nobel Foundation will pay tribute to the winners and speeches by Carl-Henrik Heldin, president of the Nobel Foundation, and members of the awarded institutions, they will be intertwined with images of the ceremonies that took place in the winners’ countries of origin, like the one held today in Rome for Giorgio Parisi. The awarding of the Nobel Medal to Parisi – like all those of the 2021 Nobel Prizes – will be broadcast at the Nobel Prize ceremony broadcast live online on the nobelprize.org website. The ceremony in Stockholm will also be attended by the King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustav, Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel.
Giorgio Parisi, full professor of Theoretical Physics at Sapienza in Rome – was awarded last October of Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 for “the discovery of the interaction between disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from the atomic scale to the planetary scale”. The announcement of the Nobel Prize was traditionally given by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and the Italian Giorgio Parisi – the sixth Nobel Prize in our country – was awarded 50% of the prestigious physics award. while the other 50% went to physicists Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann. “I didn’t expect it, but I knew it was possible a little bit and for this I had kept the phone close because the prizes can be like cherries that, as they say, ‘one leads to another’ ” Parisi joked commenting on the award of the Nobel Prize with time.news.
The Nobel Prize in Parisi came immediately after the Clarivate Citation Laureates which had included him, on 22 September last, as one of the most cited scholars in the world in scientific publications. It is a sort of ‘nomination’ for Nobel which the eclectic Italian physicist was then awarded. “I hope this Nobel can help move Italy in the direction of” greater investment in fundamental science “, Parisi remarked a few hours after the Nobel Prize, always speaking in the Aula Magna of his Sapienza University. Parisi was greeted by a standing ovation and from the hymn by Mameli played on the piano in the presence of the Minister of Mass and the Rector Polimeni. “If I got to this point it is because I climbed on the shoulders of giants” Parisi said speaking to his students who on that occasion they dedicated a powerful ‘stadium wave’ to him.