Carlo Di Castro

Carlo Di Castro (born 14 August 1937) is an Italian theoretical physicist in the field of statistical mechanics, superconductivity, and condensed matter physics. He is a patriarch of Italian theoretical condensed matter physics, founder of the “Rome Group” (together with Claudio Castellani), member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and emeritus professor of Sapienza University of Rome. In 1969, Di Castro, in co-authorship with Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, introduced the revolutionary renormalization group approach into the study of critical phenomena (almost two years before the celebrated papers by Kenneth G. Wilson, laureate of the Nobel prize in Physics in 1982), providing a first example of complexity in physical systems. Provided by Wikipedia