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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.
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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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.
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,...
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.
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.
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.
