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- Beginning in the 1960s, Riccardo Giacconi made several pivotal contributions to the development of such telescopes. With the telescopes, he discovered X-ray sources outside our own solar system, cosmic background radiation with X-ray wavelengths as well as X-ray sources that probably contain black holes.
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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.
Dec 16, 2018 · Beginning in the 1960s, Riccardo Giacconi made several pivotal contributions to the development of such telescopes. With the telescopes, he discovered X-ray sources outside our own solar system, cosmic background radiation with X-ray wavelengths as well as X-ray sources that probably contain black holes.
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.
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Jan 22, 2019 · It led to the discovery of accreting neutron-star and black-hole sources in binary stars, X-ray emission from supernova remnants, active galactic nuclei and hot haloes in clusters. In 1973,...
- Giuseppina Fabbiano
- 2019
We discussed the possibility of searching for the ratio between alpha particles and protons in the trapped radiation belts just recently discovered by Van Allen. Another suggestion came from Bruno Rossi at a party in his house.
Dec 12, 2018 · In 1963, Giacconi and Gursky, who had moved from Princeton to join Giacconi at AS&E, led an effort to lay out a bold program for the future of X-ray astronomy that included more rocket flights, an X-ray satellite to survey the entire sky, and within a few years, an X-ray telescope.
As a student, Giacconi was profoundly influenced by Giuseppe Occhialini, who had discovered with Patrick Blackett the phenomenon of pair production in the early 1930s. Occhialini had brought to Manchester the electronic coincidence counting of cosmic rays developed in Florence by Bruno Rossi.
