The call for the 2025 prizes is open!
To honour the memory of Mrs. Caterina Tomassoni and Dr. Felice Pietro Chisesi, two prizes are awarded to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in physics. The prizes will be assigned without regard for the nationality of the awardee or the geographical site at which the work was accomplished. The junior prize can be awarded to candidates under the age of 40, while the senior prize has no age limitations. Each prize consists of Euro 40,000 and the invitation to the awarding ceremony, which takes place in April (for the 2025 prizes, the junior prize will consist of 20k€, and the awarding ceremony will be in November 2026).
Name of the winners since 2001
| Year | Senior Prize | Junior Prize |
| 2001 | Serge Haroche Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie/Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris Premio Nobel 2012 | Ignazio Ciufolini Università del Salento Lecce |
| 2002 | Not Awarded | Not Awarded |
| 2003 | Pierre Encrenaz Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris Membro Accademie de France dal 2000 | Lisa Randall Harvard University Cambridge (MA) – USA |
| 2004 | Till Kirsten Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics – Heidelberg Germany | Federico Capasso Harvard University - USA |
| 2005 | Igor Novikov University Observatory of Copenhagen | Piero Zucchelli CERN./Ist. Fisica Nucleare |
| 2006 | Wolfgang Goetze Techincal Univ. of Munich | Savas Dimopolous Stanford University - USA |
| 2007 | Not Awarded | Not Awarded |
| 2008 | Edward Lorenz Univ. di Harvard - USA | Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University Cambridge (MA) - USA |
| 2009 | Gabriele Veneziano CERN - Ginevra | Thomas W. Ebbesen Université de Strasbourg - France |
| 2010 | Massimo Inguscio CNR – Roma - | Alex Zunger University of Colorado Boulder - USA |
| 2011 | Paul L. Richards University of Berkely – USA | Herbert Spohn TUM – Munich - Germany |
| 2012 | Not Awarded | Not Awarded |
| 2013 | Alain Aspect Institut D'Optique – Ecole Polytechinque - Membro dell''Academie de France | |
| 2014 | Igor Klebanov University of Princeton (MA) USA | |
| 2015 | Charles Bennett J. Hopkins University – Baltimora - USA | |
| 2016 | Adalberto Giazotto INFN /CERN | |
| 2017 | Fabiola Gianotti CERN Ginevra | |
| 2018 | Prof. Philip Kim Harvard University, USA | Prof. Scott Aaronson University of Texas – Austin- USA |
| 2019 | Prof. Giulia Galli University of Chicago, USA | Prof. Alexander Szameit University of Rostock, Germany |
| 2020 | Prof. Jo Dunkley Princeton University, USA | Dr. Karoline Schäffner Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Werner Heisenberg Institut, Germany |
| 2021 | Prof. Michele Vendruscolo University of Cambridge,United Kingdom | Dr. Zohar Komargodski Simons Center for Geometry and Physics State University of New York, Stony Brook (USA) |
| 2023 | Prof. David Benjamin Kaplan University of Washington, Institute for Nuclear Theory | Not Awarded |
| 2024 | Daniel (Daan) Frenkel Department of Chemistry - University of Cambridge | Not Awarded |
Winner 2024: Fondazione Sapienza - Tomassoni Chisesi Physics Prize
Winner over 40 category:
Daniel (Daan) Frenkel
Department of Chemistry - University of Cambridge
Motivation:
For fundamental insights in soft matter and the physics of phase transitions, using novel computational techniques and general models to describe entropy and free energies.
And for his central role in building and shaping the computational physics community.