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1929–2026 Italy
Antonino Zichichi (15 October 1929 – 9 February 2026) was an Italian physicist who has worked in the field of nuclear physics. He served as President of the World Federation of Scientists, President of the European Physical Society for over 10 years, and as a professor at the University of Bologna.
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Science and faith are not in conflict; they are expressions of the two components of which we are made: the transcendent and the immanent.
How does the world recognizes England, the United Kingdom, as the country that gave birth to the modern age? It was not Newton but Galilei who opened the Moderna age.
If we were children of chaos, the fundamental laws of nature could not exist.
As a believing scientist [...] it is my deep conviction that it is our task to search nature and the universe, as Galileo Galilei, the father of modern science, did, for the footprints of God.
Esistono diversi livelli di Infinito.
When I met John Paul II, I felt that history was offering us a unique opportunity: to heal a rift that had divided science and faith for centuries.
When it comes to the Big Bang, many believe that simply evoking that primordial explosion is enough to explain the origin of the world. But the issue is much deeper than that. Before the Big Bang, the fundamental laws of Nature had to be created: space, time, mass, energy, charges.
Certainly heaven is something we all need, however, we should not imagine it anthropomorphically. [...] I believe that we certainly cannot rule out the possibility of an existence outside of space and time, mass, energies and charges. In heaven there can be anything but that.
Golden beauty is not just art. It is pure geometry. It is visual physics. It is found in the regular pentagon, where the ratio of the side of the inscribed star to the side of the pentagon is exactly 62% and 38%: the two segments of a line divided according to the golden section.
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