AnsamD – Italian scientists Antonia Gambacorta and Silvia Zorzetti were awarded this Tuesday (29) in the United States for their scientific projects.

Djambakurta received NASA’s Robert Goddard Prize for Science, among eight others, while Zorzetti won the US government’s Early Career Award.

The first honor was awarded to Gambacorta for its research into infrared and microwave detection techniques, as well as inverse methods for temperature recovery, atmospheric composition, and climate feedbacks on greenhouse gases.

The Italian researcher graduated in physics from Barry University in 1998, and obtained a master’s degree in atmospheric physics from the University of Maryland in 2005, and three years later she obtained a doctorate in research at the same university, where she taught for more than 15 years.

Since 2020, Gambakurta has been a scientist, physicist, and researcher in the Climate and Radiation Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Zorzetti, from the Fermi Lab in Chicago and a student at the University of Pisa, was honored for developing a technique capable of linking two quantum computers through optical fibers, thus laying the foundations for the quantum internet.

The award provides for a grant of $2.5 million over five years from the US Department of Energy, the University of Pisa announced.

“The goal of the project is to improve quantum sensors and sensor networks, to allow more efficient transfer of quantum information and signals between different physical platforms,” ​​Zorzetti explained. (forget).