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Riccardo Giacconi

1931 - 2018

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Riccardo Giacconi ( jə-KOH-nee, Italian: [rikˈkardo dʒakˈkoːni]; October 6, 1931 – December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Riccardo Giacconi has received more than 227,927 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Riccardo Giacconi is the 50th most popular astronomer (up from 66th in 2019), the 836th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,036th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Astronomer.

Riccardo Giacconi is most famous for discovering the cosmic microwave background radiation, which is the oldest form of light in the universe.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Riccardo Giacconi ranks 50 out of 644. Before him are Jérôme Lalande, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Gerard Kuiper, Ferdinand Verbiest, Vera Rubin, and Clyde Tombaugh. After him are William Lassell, Varāhamihira, Pierre Janssen, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, William Alfred Fowler, and Max Wolf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Riccardo Giacconi ranks 38. Before him are D. B. Cooper, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Khieu Samphan, Anne Bancroft, Aldo Rossi, and Hiroto Muraoka. After him are Sri Chinmoy, William Shatner, Jim Jones, James Cronin, Nawal El Saadawi, and David Lee. Among people deceased in 2018, Riccardo Giacconi ranks 25. Before him are Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Peter Grünberg, Hubert de Givenchy, Billy Graham, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Burt Reynolds. After him are Lys Assia, Arto Paasilinna, Richard E. Taylor, Jens Christian Skou, Arvid Carlsson, and Robert Venturi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Riccardo Giacconi ranks 836 out of 5,161. Before him are Giacomo Balla (1871), Giovanni Gentile (1875), Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351), Donatella Versace (1955), Julia (-76), and Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444). After him are Andrea Pisano (1290), Federico Barocci (1535), Jacobus da Varagine (1228), Amilcare Ponchielli (1834), Pope Leo V (870), and Federico da Montefeltro (1422).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Italy

Among astronomers born in Italy, Riccardo Giacconi ranks 7. Before him are Galileo Galilei (1564), Giordano Bruno (1548), Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625), Giuseppe Piazzi (1746), Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835), and Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397). After him are Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598), Girolamo Fracastoro (1476), Angelo Secchi (1818), Annibale de Gasparis (1819), Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658), and Margherita Hack (1922).

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