Michele Parrinello

Michele Parrinello
Born (1945-09-07) 7 September 1945 (age 79)
Messina, Italy
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society
EPS Europhysics Prize (1990)
Dirac Prize (2009)
Sidney Fernbach Award (2009)
Marcel Benoist Prize (2011)
Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences (2017)
Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) (2021)
European Chemistry Gold Medal (2020)[1]

Michele Parrinello (born 7 September 1945) 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 of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the Sidney Fernbach Award in 2009 for their continuing development of the Car–Parrinello method, first proposed in their seminal 1985 paper,[2] "Unified Approach for Molecular Dynamics and Density-Functional Theory".[3] They have continued to receive awards for this breakthrough, most recently the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences[4] and the 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry.[5]

Parrinello also co-authored highly cited publications on "polymorphic transitions in single crystals"[6] and "canonical sampling through velocity rescaling."[7]

  1. ^ "2020 European Chemistry Gold Medal will be awarded to Prof. Michele Parrinello". EuChemS. March 2, 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  2. ^ Car, Richard; Parrinello, Michele (1985). "Unified approach for molecular dynamics and density-functional theory". Physical Review Letters. 55 (22): 2471–2474. Bibcode:1985PhRvL..55.2471C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.2471. PMID 10032153.
  3. ^ "Car and Parrinello Named 2009 Fernbach Winners". IEEE Computer Society. 15 October 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-11-11.
  4. ^ Linda Wang (29 May 2017). Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences to Michele Parrinello. Chemical & Engineering News. Accessed August 2021.
  5. ^ "The Franklin Institute Awards: Michele Parrinello". fi.edu. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  6. ^ Parrinello, Michele; Rahman, Aneesur (1981). "Polymorphic transitions in single crystals: A new molecular dynamics method". Journal of Applied Physics. 52 (12): 7182–7190. Bibcode:1981JAP....52.7182P. doi:10.1063/1.328693.
  7. ^ Bussi, Giovanni; Donadio, Davide; Parrinello, Michele (2007). "Canonical sampling through velocity rescaling". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 126 (1): 014101. arXiv:0803.4060. Bibcode:2007JChPh.126a4101B. doi:10.1063/1.2408420. PMID 17212484. S2CID 23411901.