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…)

A training course for primary and secondary school teachers promoted by the National Association of the Life Sciences Teachers (ANISN) and the Italian National Academy of Sciences called Academy of the XL.The course is held by Academy member Giuseppe Macino, professor of Cell Biology at Sapienza University of Rome. (more…)

The Italian National Academy of Sciences and the Sacred Convent of Assisi organize for the 9th consecutive year a Meeting on the environment and its safeguard. (more…)

Professor Carlo Rubbia, Nobel Prize Laureate and Academy member since 1984, was appointed Senator for Life by the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano on August 30th, 2013.

Marc Van Montagu, foreign Academy member since 1998, shared the prestigious World Food Prize 2013 with Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert T. Fraley for his achievements in the development and applications of modern biotechnology to agriculture. (more…)

Pierdomenico Perata, professor of Plant Physiology, is known internationally for his research on the molecular mechanisms of hypoxia in plants; these studies led to the recent discovery of the oxygen…