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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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    notable alumni, including Enrico Bombieri (Fields medalist, 1974), Riccardo Giacconi (Nobel laureate in Physics, 2002), Marco Bersanelli (Gruber Prize...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • chairman Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018), Italian-born American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Riccardo Illy (born 1955), Italian businessman Riccardo Ingram...
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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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    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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    laureates in the post-war decades: Mario Capecchi, Renato Dulbecco, Riccardo Giacconi, Salvatore Luria, Franco Modigliani, Rita Levi Montalcini, Emilio...
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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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    Radio3 for Radio3 scienza, with interviews to Roberto Benigni and Riccardo Giacconi. Piergiorgio Odifreddi participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions...
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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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  • – 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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    capability base for the MMU systems used on the Space Shuttle missions. Riccardo Giacconi shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of X-ray astronomy...
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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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    Physics in 2002 with Japanese physicist Masatoshi Koshiba and Italian Riccardo Giacconi for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, Davis was recognized...
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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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  • 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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    astronomy Cosmic infrared background List of largest infrared telescopes Riccardo Giacconi, Daniela Calzetti, Mario Livio, Piero Madau, Space Telescope Science...
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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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  • 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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    Archived from the original on 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2017-12-20. "Riccardo Giacconi – Curriculum Vitae". Nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on...
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  • van de Hulst 1979 – William A. Fowler 1980 – George Herbig 1981 – Riccardo Giacconi 1982 – E. Margaret Burbidge 1983 – Yakov B. Zel'dovich 1984 – Olin...
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    shares of that year's Prize were awarded to Raymond Davis Jr. and Riccardo Giacconi of the U.S.A.) Koshiba's initial research was in cosmic rays. In 1969...
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  • fraudster. Tor Fretheim, 72, Norwegian journalist and children's writer. Riccardo Giacconi, 87, Italian-born American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (2002)...
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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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    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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  • 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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