Tribute to Claudio Rapezzi

There may be many ways to start a tribute to Claudio Rapezzi, no one is easy in the heart of those who have spent part of their life with him. He was a unique and extremely rare concentration of human and scientific qualities that cannot be expressed only with words. If we were to choose a single characteristic to describe Claudio, we would say that he was primarily a mentor with the unique ability to ignite the minds and the hearts of friends and colleagues with his scientific passion. Many have known him as a brilliant mind, many others as a trustful and distinguished partner in research with flashes of extraordinary intelligence, and many more as a close friend with extremely sharp irony and culture.