Giovanni Gallavotti

{{short description|Italian mathematical physicist (born 1941)}}

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| workplaces = University of Naples Federico II
University of Florence
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Sapienza University of Rome

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| alma_mater = Sapienza University of Rome
University of Florence
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

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| doctoral_advisor = David Ruelle

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• Premio Presidente della Repubblica, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1997);
• Boltzmann Medal (2007);
• Henri Poincaré Prize (2018).

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Giovanni Gallavotti is an Italian mathematical physicist, born in Naples on 29 December 1941.

He is the recipient of the "Premio Nazionale Presidente della Repubblica", presso la Classe di Scienze Naturali dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 18 June 1997,{{Cite web |url=http://www.lincei.it/premi/assegnati_nazionali.php |title=Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei - Premi e borse di studio - Premi Nazionali del Presidente della Repubblica finora conferiti |access-date=2007-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527163133/http://www.lincei.it/premi/assegnati_nazionali.php |archive-date=2011-05-27 |url-status=dead }} and the Boltzmann Medal awarded by IUPAP- International Union of Pure and Applied Physics), 11 July 2007, with the citation:

{{quote|For his fundamental contributions to our precise understanding of equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, including the development of a constructive renormalization group for phase transitions, dynamical systems and quantum liquids. {{in lang|ja}} [http://www.stat.phys.titech.ac.jp/c3/index.html IUPAP Commission on Statistical Physics (C3)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722075716/http://www.stat.phys.titech.ac.jp/c3/index.html |date=2011-07-22 }}}}

He was an Invited Speaker with talk Renormalization theory and group in mathematical physics at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 1986 in Berkeley{{cite book|author=Gallavotti, Giovanni|chapter=Renormalizaton theory and group in mathematical physics|title=Proceedings of the ICM, 1986, Berkeley|year=1986|pages=1268–1277|chapter-url=https://ipparco.roma1.infn.it/pagine/deposito/1980-1993/101-rg-icm.pdf}} and a Plenary Speaker at the ICM in 1998 in Berlin.{{cite book|author=Gallavotti, Giovanni|chapter=Chaotic hypothesis and universal large deviations properties|title=Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. I|year=1998|pages=205–233|chapter-url=https://www.elibm.org/ft/10011722000}}

On 2018 he was awarded with the Henri Poincaré Prize "for his outstanding contributions to equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, quantum field theory, classical mechanics, and chaotic systems, including, in particular, the renormalization theory for interacting fermionic systems and the fluctuation relation for the large deviation functional of entropy production."