There are people and stories that can make me feel so proud of being Italian. One of them is Professor Claudio Pellegrini (right in the picture above), whom we honored yesterday at the Consulate in the company of distinguished Italian scientists from Bay Area scientific institutions like Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UCSF and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
On October 20, Prof. Pellegrini received at the White House the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award for devising an instrument that gives off X-ray light and thereby enables to explore matter at the scale of atoms and ultrafast processes measured in femtoseconds, or quadrillionths of a second.
Source: San Francisco, Italy
