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Riccardo Giacconi
National Medal of Science award ceremony, 2003
Born
(1931-10-06)6 October 1931
Genoa, Kingdom of Italy
Died
9 December 2018(2018-12-09) (aged 87)
San Diego, California, U.S.
Nationality
Italian American
Alma mater
University of Milan
Known for
Astrophysics
Awards
Elliott Cresson Medal (1980) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1981) Nobel Prize in Physics (2002)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University Chandra X-ray Observatory
Riccardo Giacconi (/dʒəˈkoʊni/jə-KOH-nee, Italian:[rikˈkardodʒakˈkoːni]; October 6, 1931 – December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.
RiccardoGiacconi (/dʒəˈkoʊni/ jə-KOH-nee, Italian: [rikˈkardo dʒakˈkoːni]; October 6, 1931 – December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning...
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out several more experiments, such as to observe Comet Kohoutek. RiccardoGiacconi shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of X-ray astronomy...
experiments to fly on these observatories, and a team organized by RiccardoGiacconi, Herbert Gursky, George W. Clark, Elihu Boldt, and Robert Novick responded...
"hidden treasures" in the raw Hubble data. The first director of STScI, RiccardoGiacconi, announced in 1986 that he intended to devote some of his director...
celestial objects. At the urging of Rossi, Annis brought on board RiccardoGiacconi, from Italy, to work on the effort to develop a detector. As a consultant...
X-ray Observatory (called AXAF at the time) was proposed to NASA by RiccardoGiacconi and Harvey Tananbaum. Preliminary work began the following year at...
– Jimmy Carter Physics – Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba, RiccardoGiacconi Physiology or Medicine – Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John...
Nations; Kofi Annan George Akerlof; Michael Spence; Joseph Stiglitz 2002 RiccardoGiacconi; Raymond Davis Jr.; Masatoshi Koshiba John B. Fenn; Koichi Tanaka;...
Jonathan)". The American Institute of Physics. Retrieved 2017-12-20. "RiccardoGiacconi – Curriculum Vitae". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2017-12-20. "The Nobel...
scientists believed that pulsars were pulsating white dwarfs. In 1971, RiccardoGiacconi, Herbert Gursky, Ed Kellogg, R. Levinson, E. Schreier, and H. Tananbaum...
detection of cosmic neutrinos" Masatoshi Koshiba (1926–2020) Japan RiccardoGiacconi (1931–2018) United States Italy "for pioneering contributions to...
Chris. "RiccardoGiacconi - Science Video Interview". Vega Science Trust. Retrieved 2020-05-10.: When asked about being religious, Giacconi said "No"...
2002—Richard Garwin, W. Jason Morgan, Edward Witten 2003—Brent Dalrymple, RiccardoGiacconi 2004—Robert N. Clayton 2005—Ralph Asher Alpher, Lonnie Thompson 2006—Daniel...
who helped discover several chemical elements on the periodic table RiccardoGiacconi (1931–2018) - astrophysicist; Nobel Prize 2002 Edward J. Giorgianni...
(born 1962) Andrea M. Ghez – United States (born 1955) Nobel laureate RiccardoGiacconi – Italy, United States (1931–2018) Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever – Norway...
Four Johns Hopkins laureates won Nobel Prizes in Physics, including RiccardoGiacconi in 2002 and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Adam Riess in 2011....
conjugation and time-reversals, are violated for weak interactions 1962: RiccardoGiacconi and his team discover the first cosmic x-ray source, Scorpius X-1...
H. Townes Russell L. Schweickart Joseph G. Gavin George E. Stoner RiccardoGiacconi Brian O'Brien Gerald J. Wasserburg Paul B. Blasingame Joseph F. Clayton...
(United States, 1952–2017) Andrea M. Ghez (United States, 1965–) RiccardoGiacconi (Italy, 1931–2018) Michel Giacobini (France, 1873–1938) Henry L. Giclas...
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