Riccardo Giacconi

Riccardo Giacconi receiving the 2003 National Medal of Science

Recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics, Riccardo Giacconi. Prof. Giacconi is famous for his pioneering work in the development and application of X-ray technologies in astronomy, leading to the

Riccardo Giacconi was the first permanent director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Harvey Tananbaum, Riccardo Giacconi, Martin Weisskopf (Chandra Project Scientist) and Claude Canizares (PI for one of Chandra's instruments)

Riccardo Giacconi speaking at a Chandra Symposium in 2003

Riccardo Giacconi and Harvey Tananbaum

On December 4, 1996, the Foundation Ceremony for the VLT Observatory took place on Cerro Paranal, in the presence of the President of Chile, Mr. Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, the Royal couple of Sweden, Ki

Riccardo Giacconi, the "father of X-ray astronomy," has received the Nobel Prize in physics for "pioneering contributions to astrophysics," which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources.