Rome International Center for Materials Science (RICMASS) awards gold medals to MEPhI alumni for outstanding scientific achievements named after an outstanding Italian physicist Ugo Fano to Mikhail Eremets, who graduated MEPhI Department “Solid state physics” in 1973, for outstanding experimental observation of superconductivity in H2S at a temperature of 203 K at high pressures and to a graduate of Engineering and physical faculty of the Moscow Mechanical Institute of 1953, Academician Lev Gorkov for outstanding contribution to the theory of superconductivity.

The decision about award was made at the International conference “Quantum in Complex Matter: Superconductivity, Magnetism and Ferroelectricity” (Ischia, Italy). Presentation of medals will take place in December 2015 in Rome. The rector of MEPhI Mikhail Strikhanov is invited to the ceremony.

Lev Gorkov currently works at the University of Florida (USA), and Mikhail Eremets heads the laboratory at the Max Planck Institute (Mainz, Germany).

The Rome International Center for Materials Science (RICMASS) was founded in 2012. The purpose of its creation is to contribute to advances in understanding of global problems in Natural Sciences, as well as to develop ways of addressing them. Ugo Fano Prize is awarded to scientists around the world for outstanding scientific achievements in mathematics, physics, energy, optics, information technologies, healthcare and other fields of natural Sciences.