he 2024 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) was awarded jointly to Alberto Diaspro and Francesco Saverio Pavone for their experimental research in the field of physics applied to biological systems. The motivation for the award to Alberto Diaspro, Full Professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Genoa and Director of the Nanoscopy Line of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) was: "For his notable original contributions to the development and application of optical microscopy and the crucial impact on cellular and molecular biophysics".
For Francesco Saverio Pavone, Full Professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Florence and Director of the Biophysics Area of the European Laboratory of Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), the motivation was: "For its leading role in the development of single molecule manipulation and spectroscopic imaging methods to study molecular processes in cells, tissues and the brain".
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