Marconi Magic Box

The Nobel Prize is a prestigious international award administered by the Nobel Foundation, which is in Stockholm (Sweden). Since 1901, each year Nobel Prizes are awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Since then, this prize is added to the “traditional” list as the Nobel Prize in Economics. The Nobel Prize is widely recognized as the most prestigious and important recognition that a scientist, researcher, artist can be awarded in the course of his career.

Here are the Italian Nobel laureates, who are still active:

1975 - Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine

Renato DULBECCO

For discoveries concerning 'the interaction between tumour viruses and genetic material of the cell'

1984 - Nobel Prize in Physics

Carlo RUBBIA

For the decisive contributions to the great project that lead to the discovery of field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interactions.

1986 - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Rita LEVI-MONTALCINI

For the discovery of 'growth factors'

1997 - Nobel Prize for Literature

Dario FO

That emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in condemning authority and supporting the rights of  oppressed people

2002 - Nobel Prize in Physics

Renato GIACCONI (naturalized U.S.)

For pioneering contributions to astrophysics that led to the discovery of the X-rays cosmic sources

2007 - Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine

Mario CAPECCHI (naturalized U.S.)

For the discovery of the 'principles to introduce specific gene modifications in mice through the use of embryonic stem cells

Marconi Magic Box (2009)
Translation by Erica Faggiani
Supervision by Ilaria Freddiani