
Pier Luigi Vidale
08/10/2025
SAC
Michele Parrinello
M. Parrinello is an Italian physicist, specialized in molecular dynamics simulation (the computer simulation of physical movements of atoms and molecules). M. Parrinello and Roberto Car were awarded the Dirac Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the Sidney Fernbach Award in 2009 for their continuing development of the Car–Parrinello method. They have continued to receive awards for this breakthrough, most recently the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences and the 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry.