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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    detection of cosmic neutrinos" Masatoshi Koshiba (1926–2020)  Japan Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)  United States  Italy "for pioneering contributions to...
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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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  • (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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    Jonathan)". The American Institute of Physics. Retrieved 2017-12-20. "Riccardo Giacconi – Curriculum Vitae". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2017-12-20. "The Nobel...
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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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    – Jimmy Carter Physics – Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi Physiology or Medicine – Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Fulbright Fellow Riccardo Giacconi was a pioneer of X-ray astronomy....
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  • extra-solar X-ray sources and the elucidation of their physical processes. Riccardo Giacconi 1988 Roger Penrose  United Kingdom for their brilliant development...
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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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    optics. A simple parabolic mirror was originally proposed in 1960 by Riccardo Giacconi and Bruno Rossi, the founders of extrasolar X-ray astronomy. This...
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  • (United States, 1952–2017) Andrea M. Ghez (United States, 1965–) Riccardo Giacconi (Italy, 1931–2018) Michel Giacobini (France, 1873–1938) Henry L. Giclas...
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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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    that position. Seeing a need for longer-duration studies, in 1963 Riccardo Giacconi and Herb Gursky proposed the first orbital satellite to study X-ray...
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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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    American chemist Raymond Davis Jr. and shared with Italian-American Riccardo Giacconi) Tokyo Koichi Tanaka 3 August 1959 Toyama, Japan — Chemistry "for...
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    astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos" 2002 Riccardo Giacconi Genoa, Kingdom of Italy "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics...
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