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Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-born physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002 for his seminal discoveries of cosmic sources of X-rays, which helped lay the foundations for the field of X-ray astronomy.
She was the co-author of many textbooks on geometry which were widely adopted in Italy. She held that God made geometry. My father, Antonio Giacconi, owned a small business. He had a knack of seeing historical developments clearly and to perceive when the King was naked. He was an anti-fascist and suffered for it.
Riccardo Giacconi (/ dʒ ə ˈ k oʊ n i / jə-KOH-nee, Italian: [rikˈkardo dʒakˈkoːni]; October 6, 1931 – December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy.
Dec 12, 2018 · Riccardo Giacconi, the "Father of X-ray Astronomy," Nobel prize-winner, and one of the most influential figures of modern astrophysics, has died at the age of 87. Giacconi was born in Genoa Italy on October 6, 1931.
Jan 25, 2019 · Riccardo Giacconi, one of the most charismatic and influential figures of astrophysics in the modern era, died on 9 December 2018. He was 87. Giacconi was a co-recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for “pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic x-ray sources.”
Dec 13, 2018 · Riccardo Giacconi, an astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering the study of the universe through the X-rays emitted by the most violent actors in the cosmos, including black holes,...
Dec 11, 2018 · Giacconi’s early sounding rocket work opened the field of X-ray astronomy, in which NASA continues to be a world leader. He led the sounding rocket experiment that discovered the first two non-solar cosmic X-ray sources: the X-ray background and the neutron star Scorpius X-1.
Jan 22, 2019 · For pioneering these, Riccardo Giacconi won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics. Giacconi shaped the tools and culture of modern astronomy, which centres on large facilities that serve the...
Riccardo Giacconi. Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 together with Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources". A Training in Experimental Particle Physics. Riccardo Giacconi was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1931.
Dec 16, 2018 · Died: 16 December 2018, La Jolla, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Associated Universities Inc., Washington, D.C., USA. Prize motivation: “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources” Prize share: 1/2. Stars and galaxies emit not only visible light, but also X-rays.
