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Riccardo Giacconi (Genova, 6 ottobre 1931 – San Diego, 9 dicembre 2018) è stato un astrofisico italiano naturalizzato statunitense, co-vincitore del Premio Nobel per la fisica nel 2002 "per i contributi pionieristici all'astrofisica, che hanno portato alla scoperta di sorgenti cosmiche di raggi X"
Biographical. In Memory of Marc Antonio Giacconi and dedicated to my wife, Mirella, and to our daughters, Anna and Guia. I. 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.
26 apr 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
22 gen 2019 · 22 January 2019. Riccardo Giacconi (1931-2018) Astronomer who opened the X-ray window onto the Universe. By. Giuseppina Fabbiano. Credit: Bettman/Getty. Revolutionary discoveries in astronomy...
- Giuseppina Fabbiano
- 2019
Chandra X-ray Observatory. Riccardo Giacconi ( / dʒəˈkoʊni / 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 .
Prof. Riccardo Giacconi ESO’s Director General from 1993 to 1999. Born on 6 October 1931 in Genoa, Italy, Giacconi spent most of his young life in Milan, where he obtained a degree in Physics from the University of Milan. Although he didn’t enjoy lectures, he discovered a love for practical scientific research.
She met Giacconi in the early 1970s, while working on Uhuru data for her doctoral thesis. ... Riccardo Giacconi (1931-2018) Astronomer who opened the X-ray window onto the Universe. BETTMANN/GETTY
