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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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.