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Dr. Alex Zunger, Research Fellow, is the recipient of the year 2010 Tomassoni Physics prize and the Science medal of Scola Physica Romana

The “Felice Pietro Chisesi e Caterina Tomassoni” Prize is awarded annually to a single scientist by the University of Rome, La Sapienza, for outstanding achievement in physical sciences. The ceremony will be at the University of Rome, June 15, 2010. The recent recipients of the “Felice Pietro Chisesi e Caterina Tomassoni” prize were: 2009 – Prof. Gabriele Veneziano, Professor of Elementary Particles, Gravitation and Cosmology at the Collège de France, France 2008 – Prof. Edward Lorenz, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA 2006 – Prof. Wolfgang Götz, Professor at the Technical University of Münich, Germany 2005 – Prof. Igor Novikov, Professor at Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen, Denmark 2004 – Prof. Till Kirsten, Professor at Max Planck Institute fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany 2003 – Prof. Pierre Encrenaz, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Paris VI, France

The "Felice Pietro Chisesi and Caterina Tomassoni" prize of the year 2010 is awarded to Dr. Alex Zunger for: “his fundamental contributions to the development of the Quantum Theory of Real Solids that have enabled the transformation of the quantum equation describing the electronic-structure of solids into a tractable form and offered a quantitative understanding of real solids. In the last decade, Alex Zunger has combined the First-Principles Quantum Theory of Real Solids with biologically inspired phase-space search methods and thus introduced the “Inverse Band Structure” concept. This approach allows to search for atomic configurations that have a desired target property and thus ushers in a new era of material science."