Nobel Prize awarded to Parisi: "I hope this is useful for underlining the importance of science"

• Nobel Prize in Physics to the Italian Giorgio Parisi, Klaus Hasselmann, Syukuro Manabe

• The Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi holds a lectio magistralis at Sapienza

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06 December 2021 In the same place where he began his studies in Physics, in the Sapienza University of Rome where he graduated and began his academic career, Giorgio Parisi received the medal and the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 tonight . 

"I would like to

, who gave me the knowledge, but also the science love pearl" Parisi said during the ceremony.

"I was a lucky physicist because I had the opportunity to study at Sapienza, in a department managed by Amaldi, with a number of excellent people and magnificent collaborators. Thank you all for this beautiful medal - added Parisi -

".

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded to Parisi on 5 October," for the discovery of the link between disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from the atomic to the planetary scale. "The Nobel Prize in Physics also went to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their research on climate models and global warming.

Parisi, Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at Sapienza University of Rome, former President of the Accademia dei Lincei, is the 6th Italian to obtain the coveted recognition in the field of Physics, after Guglielmo Marconi (1908), Enrico Fermi (1938), Emilio Segre (1959), Carlo Rubbia (1984), Riccardo Giacconi ( 2002).

The medal was presented by the Swedish ambassador Jan Björklund.

In fact, this year too, like the previous one, the Nobel Prize is awarded by the Swedish embassy in the country of origin of the winner of the prize and not in Sweden.

"The Nobel Prize is the most prestigious scientific prize in the world," said Björklund, who congratulated the winner.