Giorgio Parisi

Giorgio Parisi
Giorgio Parisi
Born	(1948-08-04) August 4, 1948 (age 68) Rome, Italy
Residence	Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Fields	physicist
Institutions	Sapienza Università di Roma
Alma mater	Sapienza Università di Roma
Notable students	Enzo Marinari, Roberto Benzi, Guido Martinelli, Francesco Fucito, Zhang Yi-Cheng, Massimo Bernaschi, Raffaella Burioni, Giulia Iori, Romeo Brunetti, Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina, Francesco Zamponi
Known for	statistical mechanics, quantum field theory, spin glass, complex systems
Notable awards	Boltzmann Medal Dirac Medal Enrico Fermi Award Dannie Heineman Prize Microsoft Award Lagrange Prize Max Planck Medal Lars Onsager Prize

Giorgio Parisi (born August 4, 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 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.

Giorgio Parisi received his degree from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1970 under the supervision of Nicola Cabibbo. He was a researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (1971–1981) and a visiting scientist at the Columbia University (1973–1974), Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (1976–1977), and École Normale Supérieure (1977–1978). From 1981 until 1992 he was a full professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and he is now professor of Quantum Theories at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is a member of the Simons Collaboration "Cracking the Glass Problem".

Giorgio Parisi is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences and the United States National Academy of Sciences.