Tomassoni Chisesi Prize
To honour the memory of Mrs. Caterina Tomassoni and Dr. Felice Pietro Chisesi, the prize is awarded to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in physics. The prize will be assigned without regard for the nationality of the awardee or the geographical site at which the work was accomplished.Since 2013, the awards were unified into a single premium. A prize titled "Caterina Tomassoni and Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize" is presented each year on April, at Sapienza University of Rome. The prize consists of Euro 40,000, of an allowance for travel to the awarding ceremony, and of a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient.
Name of the winners since 2001
| Year | Chisesi - Tomassoni | Tomassoni - Chisesi |
| 2001 |
Serge Haroche Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie/Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris Premio Nobel 2012 |
Ignazio Ciufolini Università del Salento Lecce |
| 2002 |
Non Assegnato |
Non assegnato |
| 2003 |
Pierre Encrenaz Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris Membro Accademie de France dal 2000 |
Elisa Randall Harvard University Cambridge (MA) – USA
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| 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 Univ. of Houston - USA
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| 2007 |
Non Assegnato |
Non Assegnato |
| 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
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Herbert Spohn TUM – Munich - Germany |
| 2012 |
Non assegnato |
Non assegnato |
| 2013 |
Alain Aspect Institut D'Optique – Ecole Polytechinque - Membro dell''Academie de France
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| 2014 |
Igor Klebanov University of Princeton (MA) USA |
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| 2015 |
Charles Bennett J. Hopkins University – Baltimora - USA |
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| 2016 |
Adalberto Giazotto INFN /CERN |
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| 2017 |
Fabiola Gianotti CERN Ginevra |
13 September 2018: Fondazione Sapienza - Tomassoni Chisesi Physics Prize
Winner over 40 category:
Prof. Philip Kim (presentation)
Harvard University, USA
For his pioneering experiments on quantum transport in carbon nanotubes and graphene which opened new perspectives in the study of physical properties of materials at the nanoscale. Philip Kim is a world leading scientist in the research on nanoscale materials, 2D single layers, van der Walls heterostructures and low dimensional architectures and provided the groundbreaking observation of the quantum Hall effect in single layer graphene, contemporary to the results obtained by the 2010 Nobel prize winners A. Geim and K. Novoselov.
Winner under 40 category:
Prof. Scott Aaronson (presentation)
University of Texas – Austin- USA
For his strong contribution to define the fundamental limits of quantum computation with a number of pioneering works at the frontier of computational complexity and quantum mechanics.
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