Massimo Inguscio

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Massimo Inguscio (born January 26, 1950 in Lecce ) is an Italian physicist, professor at the University of Florence and President of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (German National Research Council) since 2016 . His research areas include atomic physics , molecular physics , quantum optics , high-precision spectroscopy and Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC).

Inguscio received in 1972 his Diploma in physics (Laurea) from the University of Pisa ( cum laude ) and was 1976 at the Normal Scuola Superiore in Pisa cum laude doctorate. He was visiting scholar at the University of Colorado in Boulder , at the Collège de France and at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics . Since 1991 he has been Professor of Physics at the University of Florence . He is there at the European Laboratory of Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS).

Inguscio developed new experimental processes for BEC and was the first in Italy to produce BEC with rubidium atomic gas. To this end, he developed sympathetic cooling for different types of atoms and created the first BEC with potassium atoms. He studied ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices in quantum optics and demonstrated its use as a high-precision sensor for forces. He also used optical grids to simulate analog solid-state physical problems, in particular Anderson localization , i.e. the investigation of disorder.

He used to investigate the quantum electrodynamics of the helium atom in precision experiments and checked the symmetrization postulate for particles with spin 0.

He is a member of the Academia Europaea , the Istituto Lombardo and the Accademia dei Lincei (2008) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2006) and the Optical Society of America (2002). In 2005 he received the Grand Prix Scientifique of the Académie des Sciences and the Institut de France (Fondation Simon e Cino del Duca), in 2004 the Premio Enrico Fermi , in 2004 a Humboldt Research Prize and in 1995 the Prize for Laser Optronics of the Italian Physical Society. In 2009 he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. For 2014 he was awarded the Herbert Walther Prize .

Fonts

  • with E. Arimondo, P. Violino Experimental determinations of the hyperfine structure in the alkali atoms , Rev. Mod. Phys., Volume 49, 1977, pp. 31-75
  • Editor with CE Wieman, S. Stringari Bose Einstein Condensates in atomic gases , Int. School of Physics Enrico Fermi, Varenna 1998, IOS Press 1999
  • Editor with W. Ketterle, C. Salomon Ultracold Fermi gases , Int. School of Physics Enrico Fermi, 2006 Varenna, IOS Press 2007
  • Editor with TW Hänsch Frontiers in Laser spectroscopy , Int. School of Physics Enrico Fermi, Varenna 1992, Elsevier 1994
  • Editor with Wolfgang Demtröder Applied Laser spectroscopy , NATO Advanced Study Institute, Plenum Press 1990
  • Editor with TW Hänsch, G. Bassani Hydrogen atom (Symposium Pisa 1988), Springer Verlag 1989
  • Editor with Kenneth Button, F. Strumia Optically pumped far infrared lasers , Plenum Press 1984
  • Editor with Richard Wallenstein Solid state lasers: new developments and applications , Plenum Press 1993

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presidente https://www.cnr.it/it/presidente
personal data
SURNAME Inguscio, Massimo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Lecce