Academy member Giampiero Maracchi, emeritus Professor of Agro-meteorology and Climatology at the University of Florence, is the 21st President of the Accademia dei Georgofili, a prestigious XVIII century Academy that operates for the progress of science and its application in agriculture, in environmental protection and agricultural land conservation and for the development of rural districts. (more…)
The National Institute of Astrophysics (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, INAF) in cooperation with the Italian Astronomy Society (Società Astronomica Italiana, SAiT) assigned the award to Professor Giancarlo Setti in the first edition of INAF-SAiT prizes for various Astronomy and Astrophysics research areas. (more…)
The opening ceremony of the 232nd Academic Year of the National Academy of Sciences called of the XL will take place on May 15th, 2014 at the Academy Library in…
Physicist Luciano Maiani, professor emeritus at Sapienza University of Rome, received the prestigious ‘Bruno Pontecorvo’ 2013 International Award for his scientific achievements. (more…)
The first Systems Biology and Systems Medicine School will take place in Como at the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies created under the auspices of the University of Milan, University of Milano – Bicocca, University of Pavia and University of Insubria, and with the patronage of the Italian National Academy of Sciences and the University of Amsterdam. (more…)
On the occasion of naming the Aula Magna S. Maria in Gradi of Tuscia University after Professor Gian Tommaso Scarascia Mugnozza, Academy member Enrico Porceddu remembered the illustrious Academy President, former Rector of the University from 1980 to 1998. (more…)
The President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano conferred the prestigious Nature Award for Mentoring in Science, attributed to Italy for 2013, ex-aequo to Academy members Vincenzo Balzani and Giorgio Parisi as a recognition for their outstanding lifetime mentorship. The ceremony took place at the Quirinal Palace on November 25th, 2013. (more…)
Rome, November 18th, 2013 - 9.30 am– 1.15 pm. Welcome address: prof Emilia Chiancone, President, National Academy of Sciences called of the XL; Coordinator: prof. Giorgio Bignami, President Association Forum…
On November 5th, 2013 the ‘Enrico Fermi Chair’ lectures by Luciano Maiani will start. The first of the series is ‘Present and future of particle physics’. (more…)
The Second Annual Assembly will be held in the Library of the National Academy of Sciences on November 6th, 2013. (more…)
