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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