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Riccardo Giacconi

Born on October 6, 1931

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Riccardo Giacconi ( jə-KOH-nee, Italian:; 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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