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Riccardo Giacconi (born October 6, 1931, Genoa, Italy—died November 9, 2018, San Diego, California, U.S.) 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.
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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.
Early years. I was born in Genoa, Italy, on October 6, 1931, but I spent most of my life until 1956 in Milano. I was the only child. My mother, Elsa Canni Giacconi, was a teacher of Mathematics and Physics at the high school level. She was the co-author of many textbooks on geometry which were widely adopted in Italy.
Dec 12, 2018 · Giacconi was born in Genoa Italy on October 6, 1931. He spent most of his life until 1956 in Milan, where he obtained a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Milan, working under the direction of noted cosmic ray physicist Giuseppe Ochialini.
Jan 25, 2019 · Born in Genoa, Giacconi obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Milan in 1954. He moved to the United States in 1956 and soon began work at American Science and Engineering (AS&E), a space startup company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- 2019
Dec 16, 2018 · Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. 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.
Dec 13, 2018 · Riccardo Giacconi was born in Genoa, Italy, on Oct. 6, 1931, and grew up mostly in Milan, the only child of Elsa (Canni) Giacconi, a high school math and science teacher and textbook author,...
