Luca Bindi
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Luca Bindi 2 December 1971 Prato, Italy |
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| Awards | Premio Presidente della Repubblica, 2015 |
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| Institutions | University of Florence, Italy |
Luca Bindi (born 1971) is an Italian geologist. He currently holds the Chair of Mineralogy and Crystallography in the Department of Earth Sciences in the University of Florence. He is also a research associate at the Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse of the National Research Council (Italy) (CNR). He has received national and international scientific awards that include the President of the Republic Prize 2015 in the category of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences in the National Academy of Lincei.
He discovered natural quasicrystals in 2009, showing that quasicrystals can form spontaneously in nature and remain stable for geological times.
Awards for his research, include:
Two of his scientific works related to the discovery of the first natural quasicrystal, icosahedrite, were cited in Scientific Background on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 – The Discovery of Quasicrystals of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Bindi has numerous international collaborations, especially with Princeton University, Harvard University, and the California Institute of Technology.
His research activity resulted in 250 scientific publications in international journals, mainly covering crystallographic structural studies of minerals characterized by incommensurate structures, superstructures, twinning, and integrating mineralogy with the most-advanced fields of crystallography. Significant among his research works are the crystal-chemical studies of major mineral phases for the Earth's mantle, and studies of potassium-rich clinopyroxene, which had broad international resonance.
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