Lutto nel mondo della scienza

 

Alexander MullerLutto nel mondo della scienza: lunedì 9 gennaio 2023 a Zollikerberg, in Svizzera, è venuto a mancare Karl Alexander Müller, fisico, vincitore del Premio Nobel per la fisica nel 1987, scienziato  di fama internazionale e molto legato anche all'Italia, e ai laboratori e all’attività dell’Istituto di Cristallografia del CNR. La famiglia ne diffonde oggi la notizia, alla quale fa eco tutta la stampa svizzera.  
K.A. Müller, per chi lo conosceva direttamente Alex Müller, era nato a Basel, Svizzera, il 20 aprile 1927. Noi che lo abbiamo conosciuto e lo abbiamo frequentato negli anni vogliamo aggiungere alle commemorazioni ufficiali il nostro personale ricordo: quello di uno scienziato originale al quale i massimi riconoscimenti non avevano mutato il tratto gentile, semplice, ironico. Alex Müller ha amato molto la scienza, alla quale ha dato il suo fondamentale contributo con la scoperta della superconduttività ad alte temperature nei materiali ceramici, che ha dimostrato la possibilità della coerenza quantistica macroscopica ad alte temperature. Amava anche la compagnia degli amici scienziati italiani, con i quali preferiva parlare, anziché in inglese, in quell’italiano che era stata una delle lingue nelle quali si era formato durante la sua adolescenza. Noi serbiamo di Alex Müller una memoria colma di riconoscenza.
(Antonio Bianconi e Piera Mattei, 17 gennaio 2023)

https://www.cnr.it/it/news/11625/un-ricordo-del-premio-nobel-karl-alexander-muller

Dialogue and Peace, against War and Discrimination

Dialogue Across Divides on the War in Ukraine

We support the "dialogue across divides"
and the Pugwash declaration
seeking a world free of nuclear weapons
which reveived the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.

We share the Pugwash aim to develop and support the use of scientific, evidence-based policymaking, focusing on areas where nuclear and and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) risks are present.
We share the Pugwash actions to facilitate track and creative discussions on ways to increase the security of all sides and promote policy development that is cooperative and forward-looking.

see:
Pugwash Statement on the War in Ukraine
https://pugwash.org/2022/02/26/pugwash-statement-on-the-war-in-ukraine/

 

Call for dialogue and peace from the European Academy of Sciences - EurASc

We support and share

A call for dialogue and peace from the European Academy of Sciences - EurASc

https://www.eurasc.org/post/a-call-for-dialogue-and-peace

On February 24th 2022, the world witnessed the start of a war in Ukraine.

We have reached a crucial juncture for human civilization on the Earth, one which calls for efforts towards sustainable development, as the only possibility for lasting global prosperity.

As scientists and scholars, we wish to promote the values of dialogue, diplomacy and peace.

Our Academy wishes to express solidarity and support for all those who are affected and reaffirms its aim of using knowledge and education to unite people, nations and cultures towards a peaceful and sustainable future for all living species on our planet.

EURASC strongly supports our Ukraine Fellows and Academicians and demands an urgent peace dialogue as quickly as possible.

 

Against war and discrimination

We support and share the

Declaration of the Rector of Gran Sasso Science Institute
Against war and discrimination

https://www.gssi.it/communication/news-events/item/16972-contro-la-guerra-e-le-discriminazioni

Basic scientific activity has historically been open and inclusive, and has represented, even in difficult years, and still does, an extraordinary bridge between different countries and cultures.
We are, perhaps unconsciously, peacemakers.
This is why I also think that Russian students and researchers should not be the ones to pay the cost of a war for which they are certainly not responsible.
It would be wrong, for example, to stop collaborating or to remove their names from scientific publications in which they participate.
Science must remain open and inclusive and continue to educate new peacemakers".

L’attività scientifica di base è storicamente aperta e inclusiva, ha rappresentato anche in anni difficili, e ancora rappresenta, uno straordinario ponte tra paesi e culture diverse. Siamo, forse inconsapevolmente, operatori di pace. Per questo penso anche che non debbano essere gli studenti e i ricercatori russi a pagare il costo di una guerra di cui certamente non sono responsabili. Sarebbe sbagliato, ad esempio, smettere di collaborare o togliere i loro nomi dalle pubblicazioni scientifiche a cui partecipano. La scienza deve rimanere aperta e inclusiva e continuare a educare nuovi operatori di pace.

 

 

Jarosite formation in deep Antarctic ice provides a window into acidic, water-limited weathering on Mars

 
Formation of the mineral of jarosite (hydrated iron potassium sulfate) at great depths in Antarctic glaciers has been identified for the first time.
This result was also obtained thanks to the analysis of the powders with XANES, with SYNCROTRON RADIATION, and confirms the hypothesis according to which the sediments rich in jarosite identified on the surface of Mars by NASA's Rover Opportunity, would be linked to the presence of large ice caps that covered part of the red planet in the ancient geological past.

Among the authors Augusto Marcelli (RICMASS)

 
Identificata per la prima volta la formazione del minerale di jarosite (solfato idrato di ferro e potassio) a grandi profondità nei ghiacciai Antartici.
Questo risultato è stato ottenuto anche grazie all'analisi delle polveri con le XANES, con RADIAZIONE DI SINCROTRONE, e conferma l’ipotesi secondo la quale i sedimenti ricchi di jarosite individuati sulla superficie di Marte dal Rover Opportunity della NASA, sarebbero legati alla presenza di grandi calotte di ghiaccio che hanno coperto parte del pianeta rosso nell’antico passato geologico.
Tra gli autori Augusto Marcelli (RICMASS)
 
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"SILS Lifetime Achievement Award" to Antonio Bianconi

During "3rd Joint AIC-SILS conference", Rome, June 25-28 2018, the special career "SILS Lifetime Achievement" award was given to Antonio Bianconi (RICMASS).

See video of the talk"SILS Lifetime Achievement Award" to Antonio Bianconi

The Nobel Prize in chemistry to John B. Goodenough

 


In the first raw from left to rigth: Takeshi Egami, Antonio Bianconi, John Goodenough, Charles P. Slichter.

Today Oct 9, 2019 the scientific community of Superstripes is very happy for the announcement of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, to John B. Goodenough.
We all congratulate with John for the discovery of Lithium batteries but we all think that : "John finally won the prize" since he made so many other beautiful discoveries in the science of quantum materials.
John B. Goodenough with Alex K. Muller [nobel Laureate] and Lev Gor'kov [Ugo Fano Gold Medal] has partecipated at the first Stripes conference (held in 1996) and at many following Stripes and Superstripes conferences where he presented the key role of pseudo Jahn Teller polaron stripes and for new of phase segregation in perovskite high Tc superconductors.

The picture was taken at the Sripes conference held in Rome in 2004

 

John B. Goodenough at the first STRIPES conference 1996.

 

 


Interview with 2019 Nobel Laureate John B. Goodenough.

Ugo Fano    UGO FANO PRIZE 2016
    for Materials Science, Light Science & Life Science

 Rome Dec 19-20-21, 2016

Established in honor of Ugo Fano, at 80 years from the publication of his paper on configuration interaction between open and closed scattering channels (after called "Fano resonances")
the Rome International Center for Materials Science Superstripes (RICMASS)
to announce the ceremony on December 19, 2016 Marconi Hall, CNR, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 00185 Rome, Italy, in honor of the 2016 "Ugo Fano Gold Medal" winners