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 |
| 2021 | Prof. Michele Vendruscolo University of Cambridge,United Kingdom | Dr. Zohar Komargodski Simons Center for Geometry and Physics State University of New York, Stony Brook (USA) |
Winner 2023: Fondazione Sapienza - Tomassoni Chisesi Physics Prize
Winner over 40 category:
Prof. David Benjamin Kaplan
University of Washington, Institute for Nuclear Theory
Motivation:
For introduction of the domain wall method for simulating chiral fermions on the lattice and for seminal work on other strongly interacting systems