I like physics because it explains
things and it's nice to be able to
explain things it can be fun, it can give
deep satisfaction and if you can explain
things which were unexplained before it
can be fantastic.
Physics is fundamental, physics is
beautiful and it is elegant.
So, it is something which is really nice to be able to learn and it teaches you how to
think analytically and it teaches you
how to solve problems and this is
something that can be very useful in
life in general. I also like physics because
it allows me to be part of the
physicist community and physicists can
be very interesting people.
I had many dream jobs in my childhood
but the first clear recollection that I have when I was
still in primary school was the moment
in which my uncle asked me what I wanted
to do as an adult and at that time I
wanted to be a math teacher.
I liked mathematics already at that time
then I wanted to be an artist when
I become older. And I think I'm very
lucky because physics combines the
language of mathematics with the creativity of the art.
So, I have many
preferred physicists but maybe
my preferred physicist is a Enrico Fermi and I
have here his portrait which was given to me
by Jack Steinberger
a very famous physicist who got the
Nobel Prize in 1988 and was a student of
Enrico Fermi.
Enrico Fermi was really a bright mind and it gave
enormous contribution to physics both as
an experimentalist and as a theorist. He
had a clarity and a capacity of simply
find very complex problems that I find
extraordinary. Also I am Italian and he
established a school in Rome which was
very important for the future of physics
in Italy.
