Recognitions, Awards, Honors
– 2021 Watkin’s Prize.
– Included in the 2019 list of the 100 most influential “Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine.
– Included in the 2021 list of The World’s 50 Top Thinkers by Prospect magazine.
— The book ”The Order of Time” was listed among the 10 best nonfiction books of the decade by
Time magazine in 2020.
– Prix du Duc de Villars 2019 for the book “The Order of Time”.
– Premio De Sica 2017.
– First Prize of the 2016 FQXi “Wandering Towards a Goal” Essay Contest for the article “Meaning
and Intentionality = Information + Evolution”.
– 2015 Prize “Premio Alassio centolibri per l’informazione scientifica”,
– 2015 Prize “ Premio Larderello” ,
– 2014 Prize “Premio Merk-Serono”,
– 2014 Prize “Pagine di scienza di Rosignano”, for the book “La realt`a non `e come ci appare”,
– 2014 Prize for scientific writing “Premio Galileo”, for the book “La realt`a non `e come ci appare”,
– Second Prize of the 2013 FQXi Essay Contest, for the article ““Relative information at the
foundation of physics”.
– Prix du jury du jury du festival d’Astronomie de la Haute Maurienne, for the book “Anaximandre
de Millet” 2011.
– Fellow of the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation, 2010.
– First Prize of the 2009 FQXi “The nature of Time” Community Essay Contest, for the article
“Forget Time”.
– 2005 and 2009 Selection by IOP Select for the articles [127] and [151] below.
– Prix du Rayonnement International, Festival des Sciences et des Technologies, 2004.
– Chiamata per chiara fama (Honor nomination) voted by Rome University Physics Dept, 2002.
– Gravity Research Foundation, Second Award 1996, and Honorable mention 1995 and 2002.
– Idoneo al concorso Professore Universitario di Prima Fascia, Universit`a di Lecce, Maggio 2000.
– Aspen Insititute Italia, membro della sezione “Protagonisti italiani nel mondo”.
– Xanthopoulos Award, Triennial International Prize in Relativity, (“for the best relative worldwide
under forty”) 1995.
– 1994 Annual Series Lecturer, Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science.
– Chancellor Distinguished Research Award, University of Pittsburgh 1993.