Premio Tartufari 2010
with the President Giorgio Napolitano
Accademia dei Lincei (Roma)
Premio Presidente della Repubblica 2015
with the President Sergio Mattarella
Quirinale (Roma)
Premio Aspen 2018
with Lucio Stanca, Giulio Tremonti, Paul J. Steinhardt, Barbara Carfagna, Gianfelice Rocca
Aspen Institute Italia (Roma)
Premio Galileo 2023
with Antonio Mazzeo
Aula Magna Università di Firenze
Neumann Medal 2023
with Sally Gibson
European Mineralogical Conference
Dublin (Ireland)
Medaglia dei XL 2024
with Corrado De Concini
Accademia delle Scienze
The discovery of quasicrystals
In 2011 two scientific papers related to the discovery of quasicrystals in Nature have been quoted in the “Scientific Background on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 - The Discovery of Quasicrystals” della Nobel Committee for Chemistry of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences".
Award Talk, Aspen Institute Italia, October 2018
TOP: Harding Mine, New Mexico (USA) - May 2019
(Lorenzo Bindi, Paul Steinhardt, Paul Chaikin, Cindy Steinhardt, Andrew, Lincoln Hollister, Jane Silverstone - picture by Adrian Brearley)MIDDLE: Hancock, Michigan (USA) - October 2018
(visit to John Jaszczak)DOWN: Leoben (Austria) - February 2017
(visit to Federica Zaccarini & Giorgio Garuti)Scene from Chukotka expedition (2011)
Scene from Chukotka expedition (2011)
Scene from Chukotka expedition (2011)
Scene from Chukotka expedition (2011)
Scene from Chukotka expedition (2011)
Scene from Chukotka expedition (2011)
Scene from Chukotka expedition (2011)
Scene from Chukotka expedition (2011)
Scene from Chukotka expedition (2011)
Reconstructed X-ray precession image down the 2-fold axis of icosahedrite
Reconstructed X-ray precession image down the 5-fold axis of icosahedrite (X-ray film)
Reconstructed X-ray precession image down the 5-fold axis of icosahedrite (hot metal)
Enlarged stability field of the icosahedral phase in the Al-Cu-Fe system
Shock-synthesis of quasicrystals! (Caltech)
Shock-produced decagonal AlNiFe quasicrystal
EBSD data - 10-fold symmetry axis
HRTEM image of a shock-produced decagonal AlNiFe quasicrystal
7-fold symmetry
Grain 126A - Khatyrka meteorite
A minor planet (92279) has been named:
Discovered at San Marcello Pistoiese (Italy) on 2000-02-22 by Luciano Tesi
Luca Bindi & Tetsuo Irifune in front of the Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)
Tetsuo Irifune, Dmitry Pushcharowski & Luca Bindi - Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)
Colloquium on the discovery of natural quasicrystals - Fersman Museum (Moscow, Russia)
Invited talk on the incorporation of Na in the ringwoodite structure - MSU (Moscow, Russia)