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
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
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	Herbert Spohn TUM – Munich - Germany
2012	Non assegnato	Non assegnato
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

Winner 2020: Fondazione Sapienza - Tomassoni Chisesi Physics Prize

Winner over 40 category:
Prof. Jo Dunkley
Princeton University
USA

Motivation:
For the development of innovative analysis methods for Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy and polarization data, efficiently constraining both cosmology and fundamental physics, and producing a unifying view of the Physical Universe.

Winner under 40 category:
Dr. Karoline Schäffner
Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Werner Heisenberg Institut
Germany

Motivation:
Dr. Schäffner has developed a novel approach for experiments searching Dark Matter.By using her solid expertise of mK physics, she has built a prototype of an experiment to search Dark Matter at LNGS based on a new background rejection technique with cryogenic detectors. This is the base for the COSINUS project now being aiming to direct observation of Dark Matter.

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