RICCARDO GIACCONI

2002 Nobel Laureate in Physics

for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources

• Born: October 6, 1931
• Place of birth: Genoa, Italy
• Residence: U.S.A.
• Affiliation: Associated Universities, Inc.
  • Address:
    Suite 730
    1400 16 th St., NW
    Washington, DC 20036
    USA
• Education:
  • University of Milan, Ph. D. 1954

• Extragalactic Background Radiation: A Meeting in Honor of Riccardo Giacconi: Proceedings of the Extragalactic Background Radiation Meeting Baltimore by Extragalactic Background Radiation Meeting, et al
• The X-Ray Universe (Harvard Books on Astronomy) by Wallace Tucker, Riccardo Giacconi (Contributor)
• The Restless Universe: Understanding X-Ray Astronomy in the Age of Chandra and Newton by Eric M. Schlegel
• Books on X-ray Astronomy

• Prize co-recipient: Raymond Davis Jr
• Prize co-recipient: Masatoshi Koshibi
• Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
• NASA
• High Energy Astrophysics Observatories
• Space Telescope Science Institute
• European Southern Observatory
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory
• Official award announcement and background
• Information for the Public
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• Sharing out the Nobel prize (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
• for science lovers (submitted by Dr A BADR)
• Physics 2002 (submitted by Davis)
• Riccardo Giacconi - Wikipedia (submitted by Jackson)
• Biography of Riccardo Giacconi (submitted by Andrey Spencer)
• Riccardo Giacconi - Autobiography in English (submitted by roman)
• Riccardo Giacconi Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
• re.astrophysics;black holes contain 252 separate states of matter including radiation in other states besides'gasseous'under supercooled and supercompressed conditions (submitted by Dr.Mitchell A.Wick)

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