Riccardo Giacconi
Italian-American astrophysicist (1931-2018)
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Italian-American astrophysicist who basically invented X-ray astronomy and picked up a Nobel Prize for the trouble. Spent his later years at Johns Hopkins.
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Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.
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