Tomassoni Chisesi Prize

To honour the memory of Mrs. Caterina Tomassoni and Dr. Felice Pietro Chisesi, the prize is awarded to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in physics. The prize will be assigned without regard for the nationality of the awardee or the geographical site at which the work was accomplished.
Since 2013, the awards were unified into a single premium. A prize titled "Caterina Tomassoni and Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize" is presented each year on April, at Sapienza University of Rome. The prize consists of Euro 40,000, of an allowance for travel to the awarding ceremony, and of a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient.
Name of the winners since 2001

Year	Chisesi - Tomassoni	Tomassoni - Chisesi
2001	Serge Haroche Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie/Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris Premio Nobel 2012	Ignazio Ciufolini Università del Salento Lecce
2002	Non Assegnato	Non assegnato
2003	Pierre Encrenaz Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris Membro Accademie de France dal 2000	Lisa Randall Harvard University Cambridge (MA) – USA
2004	Till Kirsten Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics – Heidelberg Germany	Federico Capasso Harvard University - USA
2005	Igor Novikov University Observatory of Copenhagen	Piero Zucchelli CERN./Ist. Fisica Nucleare
2006	Wolfgang Goetze Techincal Univ. of Munich	Savas Dimopolous Stanford University - USA
2007	Non Assegnato	Non Assegnato
2008	Edward Lorenz Univ. di Harvard - USA	Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University Cambridge (MA) - USA
2009	Gabriele Veneziano CERN - Ginevra	Thomas W. Ebbesen Université de Strasbourg - France
2010	Massimo Inguscio CNR – Roma -	Alex Zunger University of Colorado Boulder - USA
2011	Paul L. Richards University of Berkely – USA	Herbert Spohn TUM – Munich - Germany
2012	Non assegnato	Non assegnato
2013	Alain Aspect Institut D'Optique – Ecole Polytechinque - Membro dell''Academie de France
2014	Igor Klebanov University of Princeton (MA) USA
2015	Charles Bennett J. Hopkins University – Baltimora - USA
2016	Adalberto Giazotto INFN /CERN
2017	Fabiola Gianotti CERN Ginevra
2018	Prof. Philip Kim Harvard University, USA	Prof. Scott Aaronson University of Texas – Austin- USA
2019	Prof. Giulia Galli University of Chicago, USA	Prof. Alexander Szameit University of Rostock, Germany
2020	Prof. Jo Dunkley Princeton University, USA	Dr. Karoline Schäffner Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Werner Heisenberg Institut, Germany

Winner 2021: Fondazione Sapienza - Tomassoni Chisesi Physics Prize

Winner over 40 category:
Prof. Michele Vendruscolo
University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom

Motivation:
Michele Vendruscolo has made highly innovative and important contributions to our understanding of the fundamental physical principles that regulate protein function and dysfunction in living systems. His work, which brings together concepts and methods from disciplines ranging from mathematics and physics to molecular biology and medicine, has made it possible to establish powerful general principles based on the quantitative analysis of complex molecular systems. Applying this methodology has pioneered an innovative drug discovery approach for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases based on quantitative physical principles. He has established an interdisciplinary translational program to bring together academia and industry to implement such approach in an effective drug discovery platform.

Winner under 40 category:
Dr. Zohar Komargodski
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
State University of New York, Stony Brook (USA)

Motivation:
For his outstanding and influential contributions to Quantum Field Theory and the theories of the fundamental interactions. In particular, for developing a new and deeper insight into the structure of the Renormalization Group, through his proof (with A. Schwimmer) of the irreversibility of its flow in four dimensions, the so-called ‘a-theorem’.
In addition, for other important insights, in various collaborations, on supersymmetric and conformal field theories, field theories in curved spaces and strongly coupled gauge theories.

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