Riccardo Giacconi
astronomer, Italy
Riccardo Giacconi (born October 6, 1931; deed 9 December 2018) was an Italian Nobel Prize-winnin astropheesicist wha laid the foondations o X-ray astronomy. He is currently a professor at the Johns Hopkins Varsity.
 Riccardo Giacconi | |
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 National Medal of Science award ceremony, 2003 | |
| Born | 6 October 1931 Genoa, Italy |
| Dee'd | 9 December 2018 (aged 87) |
| Residence | Unitit States |
| Naitionality | Italy Unitit States |
| Alma mater | Varsity o Milan |
| Kent for | Astropheesics |
| Awairds | Elliott Cresson Medal (1980) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astropheesics (1981) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (2002) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pheesics |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins Varsity Chandra X-ray Observatory |
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