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    Riccardo Giacconi (/dʒəˈkoʊni/ jə-KOH-nee, Italian: [rikˈkardo dʒakˈkoːni]; October 6, 1931 – December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning...
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  • Giacconi may refer to: Bruno Giacconi (1889–1957), Italian sports shooter Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018), Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist...
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    by many notable alumni, including one Nobel laureate in Physics, Riccardo Giacconi, one Fields medalist, Enrico Bombieri, as well as the former Prime...
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    geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, of the Nobel Prize astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi and of the astronaut Franco Malerba. The city is home to the Erzelli...
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  • doctor Riccardo Garrone (1926–2016), Italian actor Riccardo Garrone (1936–2013), Italian entrepreneur and football chairman Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)...
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  • Parisi, Physics, 2021 Mario R. Capecchi*, Physiology or Medicine, 2007 Riccardo Giacconi*, Physics, 2002 Dario Fo, Literature, 1997 Rita Levi-Montalcini, Physiology...
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    celestial objects. At the urging of Rossi, Annis brought on board Riccardo Giacconi, from Italy, to work on the effort to develop a detector. As a consultant...
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    Nations; Kofi Annan George Akerlof; Michael Spence; Joseph Stiglitz 2002 Riccardo Giacconi; Raymond Davis Jr.; Masatoshi Koshiba John B. Fenn; Koichi Tanaka;...
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  • by Remo Ruffini (University of Rome "La Sapienza") together with Riccardo Giacconi (Nobel Prize for Physics 2002), Abdus Salam (Nobel Prize for Physics...
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  • conjugation and time-reversals, are violated for weak interactions 1962: Riccardo Giacconi and his team discover the first cosmic x-ray source, Scorpius X-1...
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    in this new field of X-ray astronomy, starting with Scorpius X-1, Riccardo Giacconi received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. The largest drawback...
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    2002—Richard Garwin, W. Jason Morgan, Edward Witten 2003—Brent Dalrymple, Riccardo Giacconi 2004—Robert N. Clayton 2005—Ralph Asher Alpher, Lonnie Thompson 2006—Daniel...
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    detection of cosmic neutrinos" Masatoshi Koshiba (1926–2020)  Japan Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)  United States  Italy "for pioneering contributions to...
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    "hidden treasures" in the raw Hubble data. The first director of STScI, Riccardo Giacconi, announced in 1986 that he intended to devote some of his director...
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  • Four Johns Hopkins laureates won Nobel Prizes in Physics, including Riccardo Giacconi in 2002 and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Adam Riess in 2011....
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    scientists believed that pulsars were pulsating white dwarfs. In 1971, Riccardo Giacconi, Herbert Gursky, Ed Kellogg, R. Levinson, E. Schreier, and H. Tananbaum...
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  • who helped discover several chemical elements on the periodic table Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018) - astrophysicist; Nobel Prize 2002 Edward J. Giorgianni...
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    Fulbright Fellow Riccardo Giacconi was a pioneer of X-ray astronomy....
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  • (born 1962) Andrea M. Ghez – United States (born 1955) Nobel laureate Riccardo Giacconi – Italy, United States (1931–2018) Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever – Norway...
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    X-ray Observatory (called AXAF at the time) was proposed to NASA by Riccardo Giacconi and Harvey Tananbaum. Preliminary work began the following year at...
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  • Diaspro, physicist and engineer Ausonio Franchi, philosopher and editor Riccardo Giacconi, astrophysics, Nobel Prize in Physics Lorenzo Pareto, geologist and...
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    Chris. "Riccardo Giacconi - Science Video Interview". Vega Science Trust. Retrieved 2020-05-10.: When asked about being religious, Giacconi said "No"...
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    H. Townes Russell L. Schweickart Joseph G. Gavin George E. Stoner Riccardo Giacconi Brian O'Brien Gerald J. Wasserburg Paul B. Blasingame Joseph F. Clayton...
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    out several more experiments, such as to observe Comet Kohoutek. Riccardo Giacconi shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of X-ray astronomy...
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  • show that white dwarfs are unstable to inverse beta decay. 1962 – Riccardo Giacconi, Herbert Gursky, Frank Paolini, and Bruno Rossi discover Scorpius...
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  • Physics, 1925 Herbert Spencer Gasser – Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1944 Riccardo Giacconi – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002 Maria Goeppert-Mayer – Nobel Prize...
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    American chemist Raymond Davis Jr. and shared with Italian-American Riccardo Giacconi) UTokyo Koichi Tanaka (1959 – ) Chemistry "for the development of...
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    astronomy Cosmic infrared background List of largest infrared telescopes Riccardo Giacconi, Daniela Calzetti, Mario Livio, Piero Madau, Space Telescope Science...
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    experiments to fly on these observatories, and a team organized by Riccardo Giacconi, Herbert Gursky, George W. Clark, Elihu Boldt, and Robert Novick responded...
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  • Bernard F. Burke 1964 Maarten Schmidt 1965 George W. Preston 1966 Riccardo Giacconi 1967 Pierre Demarque 1968 Frank J. Low 1969 Wallace L. W. Sargent...
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