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    Riccardo Giacconi

    Riccardo Giacconi (/dʒəˈkoʊni/ jə-KOH-nee, Italian:


    [rikˈkardo dʒakˈkoːni]; October 6, 1931 – December 9, Riccardo Giacconi
    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.

    Biography
    Born in Genoa, Italy, Giacconi received his Laurea
    from the Physics Department of University of Milan
    before moving to the US to pursue a career in
    National Medal of Science award ceremony,
    astrophysics research. In 1956, his Fulbright
    2003
    Fellowship led him to go to the United States to
    collaborate with physics professor R. W. Thompson at Born 6 October 1931
    Indiana University. Genoa, Kingdom of Italy
    Died 9 December 2018 (aged 87)
    Since cosmic X-ray radiation is absorbed by the Earth's San Diego, California, U.S.
    atmosphere, space-based telescopes are needed for X- Nationality Italian
    ray astronomy. Applying himself to this problem, American
    Giacconi worked on the instrumentation for X-ray
    Alma mater University of Milan
    astronomy; from rocket-borne detectors in the late
    1950s and early 1960s, to Uhuru, the first orbiting X- Known for Astrophysics
    ray astronomy satellite, in the 1970s. Giacconi's Awards Elliott Cresson Medal (1980)
    pioneering research continued in 1978 with the Dannie Heineman Prize for
    Einstein Observatory, the first fully imaging X-ray Astrophysics (1981)
    telescope put into space, and later with the Chandra X- Nobel Prize in Physics (2002)
    ray Observatory, which was launched in 1999 and is Scientific career
    still in operation. Giacconi also applied his expertise to
    Fields Physics
    other fields of astronomy, becoming the first
    permanent director (1981-1993) of the Space Institutions Johns Hopkins University
    Chandra X-ray Observatory
    Telescope Science Institute (the science operations
    center for the Hubble Space Telescope), followed by
    Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) from 1993 to 1999, overseeing the
    construction of the Very Large Telescope, then President of Associated Universities, Inc. (1999-2004)
    managing the early years of the ALMA array.

    Giacconi was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 "for pioneering contributions to
    astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources".[1] The other shares of the Prize
    in that year were awarded to Masatoshi Koshiba and Raymond Davis, Jr. for neutrino astronomy.
    Giacconi held the positions of professor of physics and astronomy (1982–1997) and research professor
    (from 1998 to his death in 2018) at Johns Hopkins University, and was a university professor. During the
    2000s he was principal investigator for the major Chandra Deep Field-South project with NASA's
    Chandra X-ray Observatory. Giacconi died on December 9, 2018.[2][3][4]

    Honors and awards


    Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1966)
    Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1971)[5]
    Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1971)[6]
    Bruce Medal (1981)[7]
    Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1981)
    Heineman Prize (1981)
    Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1982)
    Wolf Prize in Physics (1987)
    Member of the American Philosophical Society (2001)[8]
    Nobel Prize in Physics (2002)
    National Medal of Science (2003)
    Asteroid 3371 Giacconi

    References
    1. Nobel prize citation (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2002/)
    2. Overbye, Dennis (2018-12-13). "Riccardo Giacconi, 87, Explorer of the Universe Through X-
    Rays, Dies" (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/science/riccardo-giacconi-dead.html).
    The New York Times.
    3. [1] (https://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2018/12/10/news/e_morto_il_fisico_riccardo_giacconi_
    nobel_nel_2002_padre_dell_astronomia_a_raggi_x-213929786/) (in Italian)
    4. "Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi dies at 87" (https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/
    12/12/riccardo-giacconi-obituary/). 2018-12-12.
    5. "Riccardo Giacconi" (http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/5538
    3.html). www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
    6. "Riccardo Giacconi" (https://www.amacad.org/person/riccardo-giacconi). American Academy
    of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
    7. Bruce Medal page (http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/brucemedalists/Giacconi/index.html)
    8. "APS Member History" (https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Riccardo+Gia
    cconi&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=adva
    nced). search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-10-15.

    Further reading
    Rosati, Piero (25 January 2019). "Retrospective: Riccardo Giacconi (1931-2018)". Science.
    363 (6425): 349. doi:10.1126/science.aaw5309 (https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.aaw530
    9). PMID 30679362 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30679362). S2CID 59248482 (https://
    api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:59248482).
    Fabbiano, Giuseppina (22 January 2019). "Obituary: Riccardo Giacconi (1931-2018)" (http
    s://doi.org/10.1038%2Fd41586-019-00216-8). Nature. 565 (7740): 430.
    doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00216-8 (https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fd41586-019-00216-8).

    External links
    Riccardo Giacconi (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/755) on Nobelprize.org including the
    Nobel Lecture December 8, 2002 The Dawn of X-Ray Astronomy

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