# Riccardo Giacconi

> He opened a window no one knew was there: X-rays from space, invisible to every telescope until he built the instruments that could catch them.

*Italian-American astrophysicist (1931-2018)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** 1931-10-06
- **Died:** 2018-12-09
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Riccardo Giacconi was born in Italy on October 6, 1931, and crossed the Atlantic to become the architect of an entirely new field. He laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy — the science of detecting high-energy radiation from distant cosmic objects — and built the tools that made it possible. The work earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics and a professorship at Johns Hopkins University. He died on December 9, 2018, having spent a lifetime teaching the world to see what had always been there, just beyond the edge of light.

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## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Astronomy, #Physics, #Art, #Italy, #Europe, #20th Century

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