Michele Parrinello

Michele Parrinello (born 7 September 1945, Messina) is an Italian physicist particularly known for his work in molecular dynamics (the computer simulation of physical movements of atoms and molecules). Parrinello and Roberto Car were awarded the Dirac Medal and the Sidney Fernbach Award in 2009 for their continuing development of the Car–Parrinello method, first proposed in their seminal 1985 paper, "Unified Approach for Molecular Dynamics and Density-Functional Theory".[1]

Michele Parrinello
Born (1945-09-07) 7 September 1945
Messina, Italy
AwardsMarcel Benoist Prize (2011)
Fellow of the Royal Society
Dirac Prize
Sidney Fernbach Award
Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences
Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) (2020)

Life and career

Michele Parinello was born in Messina (Sicily) and received his Laurea in physics from the University of Bologna in 1968. After working at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, the IBM research laboratory in Zurich, and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, he was appointed Professor of Computational Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in 2001, a position he also holds at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano. In 2004 he was elected to Great Britain's Royal Society. In 2011 he was awarded the Marcel Benoist Prize.[2] In 2020 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) in Chemistry.[3] He currently has an h-index of 146, which is one of the highest among all scientists.

Selected notable contributions

References
  1. IEEE Computer Society (15 October 2009). "Car and Parrinello Named 2009 Fernbach Winners" Archived 2011-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
  2. RSI (20 September 2011). Ihttp://www5.rsi.ch/home/networks/retedue/approfondimento/giardinodialbert/2011/12/04/michele-parrinello.html Archived 2014-11-08 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
  3. Benjamin Franklin Medal 2020
Further reading
External links

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