Residence Switzerland Name Michele Parrinello | Role Physicist | |
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Born 7 September 1945Messina, Italy ( 1945-09-07 ) Notable awards Marcel Benoist Prize (2011)Fellow of the Royal SocietyDirac PrizeSidney Fernbach Award Awards Marcel Benoist Prize, Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics | ||
Michele parrinello novel computational methods in chemistry and biochemistry
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".
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- Michele parrinello novel computational methods in chemistry and biochemistry
- Michele parrinello the phase diagram of sodium or using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
- Life and career
- Selected notable contributions
- References
Michele parrinello the phase diagram of sodium or using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
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. He currently has an h-index of 122, which is one of the highest among all scientists.