Giorgio Parisi
Italian physicist (born 1948)
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- Giorgio Parisi (born 4 August 1948) is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems.
- Early life and education Giorgio Paris was born in Rome, he is one-quarter Umbrian, one-quarter Piedmontese, one-quarter Sicilian, and one-quarter Roman for seven generations.
Giorgio Parisi (born 4 August 1948) is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. His best known contributions are the QCD evolution equations for parton densities, obtained with Guido Altarelli, known as the Altarelli–Parisi or DGLAP equations, the exact solution of the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses, the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation describing dynamic scaling of growing interfaces, and the study of whirling flocks of birds. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe for groundbreaking contributions to theory of complex systems, in particular "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales".
Early life and education
Giorgio Paris was born in Rome, he is one-quarter Umbrian, one-quarter Piedmontese, one-quarter Sicilian, and one-quarter Roman for seven generations. He attended the "San Gabriele" High School in Rome in 1966, and later received his degree from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1970 under the supervision of Nicola Cabibbo with a thesis on the Higgs boson.
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