The 2026 Cosmos Students Award has been awarded to the graphic novel Dio non gioca a dadi con il mondo (God Does Not Play Dice with the World, Castelvecchi), by SISSA professor Giuseppe Mussardo together with cartoonist Luca Morici.
The Cosmos Prize is an initiative aimed at promoting scientific culture in Italy. Every year, it awards two prizes to the best science communication works published in Italian in the fields of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics. One of the two prizes is selected by hundreds of Italian high school students — including students from Italian schools abroad — who take part in the initiative.
It is precisely this Students Award that Mussardo and Morici received for their illustrated account of the birth of quantum mechanics, a story “made of intellectual duels, challenges to common sense, and ideas capable of rewriting reality.”
Commenting on the award, Giuseppe Mussardo said: "This graphic novel was born from a desire: to restore physics to its most vivid dimension, that of storytelling. And, as in the best stories, there is courage, solitude, intuition, and a clash between different visions of the world. In this book, behind every equation, there is a face, a gesture, a moment of wonder. God Does Not Play Dice with the World is not just a title: it is a question that concerns us all.”