19 Facts About Carlo Rovelli

Carlo Rovelli was born on 3 May 1956 and is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States, France, and Canada.

Carlo Rovelli is currently Emeritus Professor at the Centre de Physique Theorique of Marseille in France, a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, core member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of Western University in Canada, and Fractal Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute in The United States.

Carlo Rovelli has worked in the history and philosophy of science, formulating the relational quantum mechanics and the notion of thermal time.

Carlo Rovelli was born in Verona, Italy, on 3 May 1956.

Carlo Rovelli attended the Liceo Classico Scipione Maffei in Verona.

Carlo Rovelli was involved with the free political radio stations Radio Alice in Bologna and Radio Anguana in Verona, which he helped found.

Carlo Rovelli refused military service, which was compulsory in Italy at the time, and was therefore briefly detained in 1977.

Carlo Rovelli held postdoctoral positions at the University of Rome, the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, and Yale University.

Carlo Rovelli was on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh from 1990 to 2000, where he was affiliated with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

In 1994, Carlo Rovelli introduced the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics, based on the idea that the quantum state of a system must always be interpreted relative to another physical system.

Carlo Rovelli has expressed the main idea of relational quantum mechanics in the popular book Helgoland.

Carlo Rovelli has written a book on the Greek philosopher Anaximander, published in France, Italy, US and Brazil.

For Carlo Rovelli, science is a continuous process of exploring novel possible views of the world; this happens via a "learned rebellion", which always builds and relies on previous knowledge but at the same time continuously questions aspects of this received knowledge.

Carlo Rovelli discussed his religious views in several articles and in his book on Anaximander.

Carlo Rovelli later refused Italy's compulsory military draft and was briefly detained.

On 1 May 2023, Carlo Rovelli gave a political speech at the large Italian Labour Day concert in Rome, inviting the youth to engage politically for the environment, economical equality and peace, and criticizing the Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto for his direct involvement with the industrial military complex.

Carlo Rovelli repeated his call for reduced military spending and improved international cooperation following the outbreak of the Gaza war.

Carlo Rovelli has written more than 200 scientific articles published in international journals.

Carlo Rovelli has published two monographs on loop quantum gravity and several popular science books.