Riccardo Giacconi
Riccardo Giacconi | |
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Giacconi in 2003 | |
| Born | 6 October 1931 |
| Died | 9 December 2018 (aged 87) San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Milan |
| Known for | Astrophysics |
| Awards | Elliott Cresson Medal (1980) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1981) Wolf Prize in Physics (1987) Nobel Prize in Physics (2002) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University 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.