Francesco Iachello - Curriculum Vitae#
Francesco Iachello was born in 1942 in Francofonte, Siracusa, Italy
Education:
- Dott. Ing. Nucl. (Nuclear Engineering) 1964, Politecnico di Torino (1959-1964)
- Ph.D. (Theoretical Physics) 1969, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966-69)
Academic Experience:
- Assistant Professor, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 1964-66
- Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967-69
- Associate Professor, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 1971-74
- Professor, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, 1974-82
- Professor 1978-90; J.W. Gibbs Professor 1990-Present, Yale University
- Professor, Universita’ di Trento, Italy, Fall 1982
- Visiting Zernike Professor, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, Spring 1997
- Visiting Professor, Universita’ di Padova, Spring 2009
Honors and Awards:
- AKZO Prize, Netherlands Society of Sciences, 1981
- Eugene Wigner Medal, Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation, 1990
- Taormina Prize, Italy, 1991
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Ferrara, Italy, 1992
- Tom Bonner Prize, American Physical Society, 1993
- Honorary Doctorate, Chung Yuan University, Republic of China, 1993
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Seville, Spain, 1993
- Honorary Professorship, Nanjing University, China, 1995
- Zernike Professorship, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, 1997
- Centennial Prize, Italian Physical Society, 1997
- Eminent Scientist Award, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan, 2000
- Lise Meitner Prize, European Physical Society, 2002
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Bucharest, Romania, 2005
- Italian Medal of Science, 2007
- Majorana Prize, Majorana Foundation, Italy, 2007
- Commemorative Medal, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 2008
- Somaini Prize, Centro Volta Foundation, Como, Italy, 2009
- Enrico Fermi Prize, Italian Physical Society, 2010
Professional Societies:
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Member, European Physical Society
- Member, Italian Physical Society
- Member, Netherlands Physical Society
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Member, American Chemical Society
- Member, American Mathematical Society
- Member, Mathematical Association of America
- Honorary Fellow, Hungarian Eotvos Physical Society
- Honorary Fellow, Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society
Academies:
- Foreign member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Foreign member, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
- Foreign member, Mexican Academy of Science, Mexico City, Mexico