Today (October 6, 1931) is the birthday of Nobel Laureate Iricardo Giacconi, who created cosmic X-ray astronomy.

Today (October 6, 1931) is the birthday of Nobel Laureate Riccardo Giacconi, who created cosmic X-ray astronomy. 

Riccardo Giacconi was born on October 6, 1931, in Genoa, Italy. She received a previous Ilaria degree from the University of Milan before emigrating to the United States to study astronomy. As the Earth's atmosphere absorbs cosmic X-rays, X-ray astronomy requires space telescopes. Giaconi was involved in designing unique instruments for X-ray astronomy to solve this problem. Of these, he designed and developed aerodynamic orbiters in the 1950s and 1960s, and the first X-ray astronomical satellite, Uguru, in the 1970s. His pioneering research continued in 1978 on the Einstein Observatory. There and later Chandra designed the first X-ray imaging telescope in the X-ray Observatory. It was installed in space in 1999 and continues to operate today.

 

Giaconi has established himself in other fields of astronomy. He later became the first director of the Space Telescope Science Institute. He also became the director of the Apple Space Telescope Science Operations Center. Masatochi Kozhiba, along with Iremond Davis Ilaval, won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics. The award was given to him for "pioneering research in astronomy that helped detect cosmic X-rays". He was Professor of Physics and Astronomy (1982-1997) and Professor of Research and University Professor of Johns Hopkins University from 1998. He (1993-1999) was the Director General of the Interim European Southern Observatory. He was recently the Principal Investigator of NASA's Chandra Albion - South Project. 

Ellen B, Warner Prize for Astronomy (1966), Bruce Medal (1981), Morris Russell Lecture Award (1981), Kainman Astronomy Prize (1981), Government Astronomical Institute Gold Medal (1982), Wolf Prize in Physics (1987), Nobel Prize in Physics ( 2002), National Science Medal (2003), Carl Schwarzschild Medal (2004). Ericardo Giacconi, the creator of the cosmic X-ray astronomy, passed away on December 9, 2018 at the age of 87 in California, USA.

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