The Enrico Fermi Prize, first awarded in 2001, is given by the Italian Physical Society (Società Italiana di Fisica). It is a yearly award of €30,000 honoring one or more Members of the Society who have "particularly honoured physics with their discoveries."[1] [2]
| Year | Winner | Recognition | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | "for seminal contributions to the physics of electronic and optical materials and their applications, ranging from the invention of the quantum cascade laser to the design of novel semiconductor materials, including metasurfaces" | ||
| "for his longstanding contribution to theoretical physics, including the study of superfluidity in liquid helium and of Van der Waals-Casimir forces, as well as for the development of the" Gross-Pitaevskii "theory which is a fundamental block of the physics of quantum gases" | |||
| "for fundamental theoretical contributions aimed to understand the optical properties of solids, in particular of surface and transport phenomena, even in extreme conditions of dimensional confinement, high temperature and pressure" | |||
| 2017 | Gianpaolo Bellini | "for the measurement of the solar neutrino spectrum, providing the evidence for nuclear hydrogen fusion in the sun and for adiabatic neutrino flavour conversion in matter" | |
| "for his theoretical contributions to the cosmogenic production of ultra-high energy neutrinos, to high energy neutrino astronomy and to the solar neutrino problem" | |||
| "for the first observation of low energy solar electron neutrinos providing the first direct evidence of hydrogen fusion inside a star" | |||
| 2016 | "for his fundamental contributions to the formation of the scientific collaborations" LIGO "and" LIGO-Virgo "and for his role in addressing various technological and scientific challenges whose solution led to the first detection of gravitational waves" | ||
| Adalberto Giazotto[3] | "for his decisive contributions in conceiving and realising the first interferometer with super-attenuators," Virgo, "which made possible the quest for gravitational wave sources with an unprecedented sensitivity at low frequency" | ||
| 2015 | "for the invention of the laser-wakefield-acceleration technique which led to a large number of fundamental and interdisciplinary applications ranging from accelerator science to plasma physics and astrophysics" | ||
| "for the first observation of Anderson localisation and of anomalous transport phenomena described by Lévy statistics in the framework of his highly original research on light propagation in disordered media" | |||
| 2014 | "for the invention of the MOS silicon gate technology that led him to the realization in 1971 of the first modern microprocessor" | ||
| 2013 | "for the outstanding results that the five large international collaboration experiments at the" CERN LHC "collider –" LHCb, TOTEM, ATLAS, ALICE, CMS "– have achieved during the first period of" LHC "data taking under the successful guidance of the awardees as spokespersons" | ||
| Fabiola Gianotti | |||
| Paolo Giubellino | |||
| Guido Tonelli | |||
| 2012 | "for the discovery of a molecular dynamics method known the world over as the" Car-Parrinello "method. This method has been a breakthrough in the field of numerical simulations, with great impact in many interdisciplinary contexts both theoretical and experimental, ranging from material science to chemistry and biology" | ||
| Michele Parrinello | |||
| 2011 | "for their fundamental contribution to the discovery of the weak neutral currents with the" Gargamelle "bubble chamber at" CERN | ||
| 2010 | "for the discovery of the X-ray afterglow of gamma-ray burst with the" BeppoSAX "satellite" | ||
| Filippo Frontera | |||
| "for his contribution to the theory of atomic nuclei and, in particular, for the discovery of a rich variety of dynamical symmetries and supersymmetries" | |||
| 2009 | "for the discovery of fundamental phenomenological properties of grand unification and superstring theories" | ||
| "for the discovery of an infinite-dimensional algebra of primary importance for the construction of string theories" | |||
| 2008 | "for his understanding of the relationship between classical and quantum chaos also in relation to quantum computing" | ||
| "for the discovery of instability-driven structures in non linear light-matter interactions" | |||
| "for demonstrating the onset of fractal shapes in a variety of self-organizing phenomena" | |||
| 2007 | "for her outstanding works on K-meson and neutrino physics" | ||
| "for his contribution to the discovery of weak neutral currents and to the study of solar neutrinos" | |||
| "for the demonstration of direct" CP "symmetry breaking in the K-meson decay" | |||
| 2006 | "for the discovery of quantum vortices in superfluid helium" | ||
| "for the first experimental demonstration of the statistical properties of coherent radiation" | |||
| 2005 | "for his contribution to the discovery of the theory of supergravity" | ||
| "for his discovery of dual models, subsequently acknowledged as the theoretical basis for a string theory of quantum gravity"" | |||
| "for his contributions to supersymmetry and supergravity theories" | |||
| 2004 | "for his contributions to the study of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, in particular for the realization of degenerate quantum mixtures of bosons and fermions, and the invention of new experimental techniques that allowed him to obtain the first Bose-Einstein condensation of 41K atoms" | ||
| 2003 | "for his theory of down- and strange-quark mixing in weak decays, in which the well-known parameter called" "Cabibbo angle" "plays a key role" | ||
| "for his pioneering works in the field of strange-particle weak decays and for his role of leader in this fundamental field of subnuclear physics" | |||
| "for having introduced, together with S. Glashow and J. Iliopoulos, the so-called" GIM "mechanism which, predicting the existence of the fourth quark, allowed to solve the problem of flavour-changing neutral currents" | |||
| 2002 | "for his contributions to field theory and statistical mechanics, and in particular for his fundamental results concerning the statistical properties of disordered systems" | ||
| 2001 | "for his discovery of the first example of nuclear antimatter (the antideuteron) and for his works that paved the way to the discovery of the charged heavy lepton" |