Michele Parrinello
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| Born | (1945-09-07) 7 September 1945 (age 78)
Messina, Italy
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| 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]
Michele Parrinello was born in Messina (Sicily) and received his Laurea in physics from the University of Bologna in 1968. After working at the International School for Advanced StudiesinTrieste, the IBM research laboratoryinZurich, and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State ResearchinStuttgart, he was appointed Professor of Computational Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in 2001, a position he also holds at the Università della Svizzera italianainLugano.[8] In 2004 he was elected to Great Britain's Royal Society. In 2011 he was awarded the Marcel Benoist Prize.[9] In 2020 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) in Chemistry.[5] As of 2024, he has received over 150,000 scientific citations and has an h-indexof163, which is one of the highest among all scientists. As of 2023, at the age of 78, there are still 6 PhD students working in his group.[10]
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