October 18, 2018
The Koerner Center is pleased to announce that Koerner Fellow Francesco Iachello, J.W. Gibbs Professor Emeritus and research professor of physics, and professor of chemistry, received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Catania, Italy, on September 14. Professor Iachello received the doctorate “for his fundamental contributions to the ancestral search of order in nature through the introduction of innovative models based on dynamical symmetries and for their implementations to nuclear atomic and molecular systems, which mark an exceptional path of discoveries and mentoring for new generations of scientists.”