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Riccardo Giacconi
Italian American astrophysicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Riccardo Giacconi (October 6, 1931 ā December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American astrophysicist and educator. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. He was awarded the prize because he laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy.[1] He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.
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Riccardo Giacconi | |
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Born | (1931-10-06)October 6, 1931 |
Died | December 9, 2018(2018-12-09) (aged 87) San Diego, California, U.S. |
Nationality | Italy United States |
Alma mater | University of Milan |
Known for | Astrophysics |
Awards | Elliott Cresson Medal (1980) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1981) Nobel Prize in Physics (2002) |
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Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Johns Hopkins University Chandra X-ray Observatory |
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Giacconi died on December 9, 2018 in San Diego, California, aged 87.[2]