Riccardo Giacconi
Italian-American astrophysicist (1931-2018)
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ItalyHe 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.
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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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