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Riccardo Giacconi
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Riccardo Giacconi

Artist · born October 6, 1931 · died 2018

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Riccardo Giacconi 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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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~50Received the Bruce Medal1981
  2. ~51Received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society1982
  3. ~56Received the Wolf Prize in Physics1987
  4. ~71Received the Nobel Prize in Physics2002
  5. ~72Received the National Medal of Science2003
  6. ~73Received the Karl Schwarzschild Medal2004

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1903–1995 · Ireland

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish experimental physicist. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles."

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