"Milla Baldo Ceolin" Prize

Erika Bertolini and Federica Devoto, physics graduates at DIFI in 2020, were awarded the INFN 'Milla Baldo Ceolin' prize, entitled 'Women in Theoretical Physics', for the 10 best master's theses in the field of Theoretical Physics at INFN by female graduates.

Erika Bertolini e Federica Devoto
Erika Bertolini e Federica Devoto

With this prize, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics intends to commemorate the figure of Prof. Milla Baldo Ceolin (1924-2011), a researcher of international renown, head of the Padova INFN Section, the first woman to hold a chair at the University of Padua, a scientist of great value and a woman of culture who ranged from the study of neutrino physics to literature and poetry, from music to the figurative arts. The prize is also intended to encourage young female physics students to take up the study of theoretical physics, a field in which there are still very few women in Italy.