Riccardo Giacconi ( jə-KOH-nee, October 6, 1931 – December 9, 2018) 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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6 October 1931 Genoa, Italy
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Died |
9 December 2018 (aged 87) San Diego, California, U.S.
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Zodiac | Libra |
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