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'''Lorenzo Iorio''' ([[Bari]], 1971) is an [[Italians|Italian]] physicist. He is currently active in the field of <ref>
{{cite web
|url= http://digilander.libero.it/lorri/research_activity.htm
|title=L. Iorio: research activity
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref>  the phenomenology of the [[general relativity]], and more broadly, of the [[gravitational field]] in several astronomical and astrophysical scenarios.

(contracted; show full)|url = http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025541.800-have-we-got-gravity-all-wrong.html
|title = Have we got gravity all wrong?
| first       = Stuart
| last        = Clark
|date =  3 June 2006
|work = New Scientist
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref> Indeed, if it was really due to an external gravitational cause, also the orbital motions of the major natural bodies moving in the spatial regions in which the [[Pioneer anomaly]] was detected should be affected 
as well in the same way as well. Iorio studied also the phenomenology of severalcertain modified models of the gravitational interaction such as, e.g., the [[DGP]] braneworld model.<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.geo.de/GEO/natur/kosmos/4670.html
|title = Astrophysik: Die Sonne entfernt sich
|language    = German
|date = 22 November 2005
|work= [[GEO (magazine)]]
|accessdate=18 January 2013
(contracted; show full)
|title=Author query results
|work=[[NASA ADS]]
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref> papers in international [[peer-reviewed]] journals.  As it can be retrieved from the  [[Astrophysics Data System]], jointly managed by [[NASA]] and the [[Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory]], the [[h-index]] of Iorio is, at present, 26 with over 1270 citations (
excluding self-citations excluded).

Iorio received in 2003 a prize<ref name="hinda"/> for his scientific activity by the [[Italian Physical Society]]. The scientific publisher [[Elsevier]] awarded him two New Astronomy Top Cited Article 2005-2010 awards<ref name="hinda">
{{cite web
|url = http://www.hindawi.com/68367584/
|title = From Iorio's page by [[Hindawi Publishing Corporation]]
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}
(contracted; show full)== Other websites ==
* [http://digilander.libero.it/lorri/homepage_of_lorenzo_iorio.htm Personal homepage of L. Iorio]
*[http://www.hindawi.com/68367584/ Page of L. Iorio at [[Hindawi Publishing Corporation]]]

[[Category:Physicists]]
[[Category:Italian people]]
[[Category:1971 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]