Parisi, I hope Nobel Prize useful to Italy to understand the value of science

"Thanks to everyone for this beautiful medal, I hope it will be useful for Italy to underline the importance of science in our country".

Giorgio Parisi said this immediately after receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics at the Sapienza University of Rome.

It was delivered by the Swedish ambassador, Jan Björklund, accompanied by huge applause.

"I would like to dedicate the Nobel Prize to Nicola Cabibbo, who passed on to me the knowledge, but also the love for science", Parisi later stated.

The physicist also thanked the Nobel Foundation "for the very prestigious company with which I was awarded, with climatologists who have warned about the dangers of climate change", he said referring to the other two winners, Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann, with the which divides the prize, with a total value of approximately one million euros. "Thank you all for the affection shown with this very warm applause", he then added, addressing the audience who for a few minutes accompanied, standing, the delivery of the medal and diploma with an enthusiastic applause.

"A prize for the freedom of research": for the Minister of University and Research, Maria Cristina Messa, who attended the award ceremony, the Nobel is above all this. "A signal to reaffirm important aspects of science" and "an invitation not to lower the attention on the use of science". Parisi deserves "the credit for having believed in the Italian university", underlined the rector of the Sapienza University of Rome, Antonella Polimeni, inaugurating the ceremony.

Giorgio Parisi's research has always been "driven by curiosity" and has led to useful applications in many fields and their recognition with the Nobel Prize makes this "a day of great enthusiasm for the country", explained the physicist. theorist Enzo Marinari presenting Parisi's research during the Nobel ceremony.