Riccardo Giacconi, one of the X-ray astronomy pioneers, recently passed away
Riccardo Giacconi passed away on December 9th, at the age of 87 years. Riccardo Giacconi born in Genoa on 1931 and won the physics Nobel prize on 2002. He was one of the founder of X-ray astronomy. Riccardo played a fundamental role in the developing of the X-ray observatory Einstein and gave a major contribution for other important missions such
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