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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. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.
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.
Dec 16, 2018 · Riccardo Giacconi. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002. Born: 6 October 1931, Genoa, Italy. 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”
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.
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.
Nobel prize-winner, and one of the most influential fig-. ures of modern astrophysics, Riccardo Giacconi died on 9 December 2018, at the age of 87. On the occasion of his passing, we present a brief retrospective on the father of X-ray astronomy, the originator of Chandra, a mentor, and. a friend.
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 · NASA was delighted when Giacconi won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources.”. Giacconi was also the first permanent director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland.
Jan 22, 2019 · Astronomer who opened the X-ray window onto the Universe. By. Giuseppina Fabbiano. Credit: Bettman/Getty. Revolutionary discoveries in astronomy stem from new observing...
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.”.
