Francesco Iachello#
| Membership Number: | 3594 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://francesco.iachello.sites.yale.edu |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1990 - Present: J.W. Gibbs Professor, Yale University, CT, USA
- 2009 Spring: Visiting Professor, Universita’ di Padova, Italy
- 1997 Spring: Visiting Zernike Professor, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
- 1978 - 1990: Professor, Yale University, CT, USA
- 1982 Fall: Visiting Professor, Universita’ di Trento, Italy
- 1974 - 1982: Professor, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
- 1971 - 1974: Associate Professor, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- 1967 - 1969: Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1964 - 1966: Assistant Professor, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Nuclear physics
- Nuclear structure
- Interacting Boson model
- Group theory
- Dynamical symmetries
- Dynamical super-symmetries
- Vibron model
- Algebraic scattering theory
- Dynamical symmetries at the critical point of phase transitions
Honours and Awards
- 1981 AKZO Prize, Netherlands Society of Sciences
- 1990 Eugene Wigner Medal, Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation
- 1991 Taormina Prize of Arts and Sciences , Italy
- 1992 Honorary Doctorate, University of Ferrara, Italy
- 1993 Tom Bonner Prize, American Physical Society
- 1993 Honorary Doctorate, Chung Yuan University, Republic of China
- 1993 Honorary Doctorate, University of Seville, Spain
- 1995 Honorary Professorship, Nanjing University, China
- 1997 Zernike Professorship, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
- 1997 Centennial Prize, Italian Physical Society
- 2000 Eminent Scientist Award, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan
- 2002 Lise Meitner Prize, European Physical Society
- 2005 Honorary Doctorate, University of Bucharest, Romania
- 2007 Italian National Medal of Science
- 2007 Majorana Prize, Majorana Foundation, Italy
- 2008 Commemorative Medal, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- 2009 Somani Volta Prize, Centro Volta Foundation, Como, Italy
- 2010 Enrico Fermi Prize, Italian Physical Society
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Foreign member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
