Parisi, Giorgio

Parisi, Giorgio, 1948–, Italian physicist, Ph.D. Sapienza University of Rome, 1970. Parisi is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Sapienza University. He has made important contributions to a varied number of fields in physics—including partical physics, condensed matter, and complex materials and systems—as well as in the fields of biology, mathematics, and neuroscience. Among the many award Parisi has won, he was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselman for "the dicovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical system from atomic to planetary scales."

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