site.btaItalian Nuclear Physicist de Angelis Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Italian Nuclear Physicist Prof. Dr. Giacomo de Angelis has been awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa degree by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) at a ceremony at BAS on Friday. On behalf of the BAS Management Board, the honorary degree was presented to Prof. Dr. Giacomo de Angelis by BAS President Julian Revalski for his outstanding services and the development of nuclear physics in Bulgaria. The award was presented by BAS President Julian Revalski. The event was attended by Italian Ambassador to Bulgaria Giuseppina Zarra, representatives of the academic community, among other guests.

Prof. Dr. Giacomo de Angelis works at the National Laboratory of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics in Legnaro and is considered one of the most eminent European and world nuclear physicists in recent decades.

Experiments initiated and led by him have been carried out successfully in almost all major nuclear centres in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia. De Angelis is the author of more than 500 scientific publications.

The Italian nuclear physicist has been at the heart of the creation of Europe's best-known multi-detector systems for nuclear structure studies over the past four decades. He is the scientific leader of the SPES project in Italy, which involves the use of one of the largest cyclotrons in the world for the needs of nuclear physics, radiopharmaceuticals, radiochemistry, nuclear medicine, among others. He shared his experience and knowledge during the construction of the Bulgarian National Cyclotron Centre at the BAS Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy.

Traditionally, Bulgarian nuclear physics is strongly supported in Italy. Numerous collaborative experiments and research have been carried out at the national laboratories in Legnaro, Florence, Milan, Catania, the Universities of Padova, Bologna, Milan, Florence, Ferrara, Como, Trieste, among others. Italy has opened its doors to dozens of Bulgarian physicists, many of them BAS scientists working in the fields of nuclear physics, astrophysics, theoretical physics, among others.