The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has awarded the honorary title of Doctor Honoris Causa to the Italian nuclear physicist Prof. Dr. Giacomo de Angelis at an official ceremony at the Academy today. The title is awarded by the Governing Council of BAS for the outstanding services of Prof. Dr. Giacomo de Angelis to the development of nuclear physics in Bulgaria. The award was presented by the President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Member of the Academy, in the presence of H.E. Giuseppina Zarra, Ambassador of Italy, representatives of the academic community and guests.
Prof. Giacomo de Angelis works at the National Laboratory in Legnaro of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics and is one of the most eminent European and world nuclear physicists of recent decades. He continues the rich tradition of the Italian school of nuclear physics which has given the world renowned nuclear and subnuclear scientists such as Nobel laureates Enrico Fermi (for induced radioactivity by neutron irradiation, 1938), Emilio Segrè (for the discovery of the antiproton, 1959) and Carlo Rubbia (for the discovery of the W boson, 1984).
Experiments initiated and directed by him have been conducted successfully in almost all major nuclear centres in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia. He is the author of more than 500 scientific publications.
He has been instrumental in the establishment of the best known multi-detector systems for nuclear structure studies in Europe over the last four decades. He is the scientific leader of the SPES project in Italy which involves the use of one of the largest cyclotrons in the world for the needs of nuclear physics, radiopharmaceutics, radiochemistry, nuclear medicine and others – experience and knowledge that he shared in the construction of the National Cyclotron Centre at the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE-BAS).
After the ceremony, Prof. Giacomo de Angelis gave an academic talk on “Enchanting nuclei: hidden symmetries, stellar archaeology, climate change and other pecularities”.
Working with Bulgarian scientists
Traditionally, Bulgarian nuclear physics is very well received and strongly supported in Italy. Numerous collaborative experiments and world-class research have been carried out at the national laboratories in Legnaro, Florence, Milan, Catania, the Universities of Padova, Bologna, Milan, Florence, Ferrara, Como, Trieste and others. Italy has opened its doors to dozens of Bulgarian physicists, many of them BAS scientists working in the fields of nuclear physics, astrophysics, theoretical physics, etc.
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