“It is time for courageous measures and strategies: we have the unique opportunity to bring students and scientists to Italy to Italy and we should not waste it”. The Nobel Prize for Physics 2021 Giorgio Parisi, interviewed by La Stampa said it.
For Parisi today the situation is “completely overturned with respect to the past: if from the 30s onwards the United States had practically supremacy on science so as to attract a huge flow of scientists from all over the world, including Italy, now the opposite could be attracted”.
“From the Second World War – Note the Nobel – Scientists like Rita Levi Montalcini, Carlo Rubbia and Renato Dulbecco, just to name someone, emigrated overseas, where they produced significant results. But to be equally lucky we should put US scientists in the conditions of wanting and being able to choose our country as a place to carry on their research projects. Research by us has been sub -childhood for now for a very long time “.
Because Italy becomes attractive “we need investments that unfortunately until today we have not been able to do well.
We must offer long -term guarantees so that if a scientist comes here from the United States he knows that his work will not be in danger after a few years. In Italy, unfortunately, when governments change, scenarios also change “.
For Parisi “Research is done with funding. But only these are not enough. The United States have long been a coveted destination also and above all for the large workshops that have been able to build over time by investing huge resources. To be competitive, therefore, you must be able to offer important infrastructures and large workshops”.
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