Riccardo Giacconi

Riccardo Giacconi

male, deceased (1931)
Astronomer, Wolf Prize in Physics recipient, Nobel laureate in Physics, National Medal of Science recipient, Italian-American, from Genoa
Riccardo Giacconi , the "father of X-ray astronomy," has received the Nobel Prize in physics for "pioneering contributions to astrophysics," which...
Employment: …first Director - Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute
Mario Livio

Mario Livio

male, 64 years old
romanian, Jewish person, Israeli, HubbleSpaceTelescopeScienceInstitute, Golden ratio, Space Telescope Science Institute…Science writer
Mario Livio (born 1945) is an astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. He is currently Senior Astrophysicist...