| LC control no. | n 80089661 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Giacconi, Riccardo |
| Variant(s) | Giacconi, R. Giacconi, R. (Riccardo) |
| Located | Milan (Italy) |
| Birth date | 1931-10-06 |
| Death date | 2018-12-09 |
| Place of birth | Genoa (Italy) |
| Place of death | La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Astrophysics X-ray astronomy |
| Affiliation | Associated Universities, Inc. European Southern Observatory Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics American Science and Engineering, Inc. |
| Profession or occupation | Nobel Prize winners Astrophysicists |
| Found in | His An X-ray telescope, 1965. X-ray astronomy with the Einstein satellite, c1981: t.p. (Riccardo Giacconi) CIP data sheet (b. 10-6-31) New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 18, 2018 (in obituary published Dec. 13: Riccardo Giacconi; b. Oct. 6, 1931, Genoa; grew up mostly in Milan; d. Sunday [Dec. 9, 2018], La Jolla, San Diego, aged 87; astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering the study of the universe through the X-rays emitted by the most violent actors in the cosmos, including black holes, exploding stars, and galumphing clouds of galaxies) |
| Associated language | eng |
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