Riccardo Giacconi

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.

6 October 1931

Born on the same birth date (6 October 1931): Eileen Derbyshire • Nikolai Chernykh

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