Riccardo Giacconi

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Riccardo Giacconi
National Medal of Science award ceremony, 2003
Born	(1931-10-06)6 October 1931 Genoa, Kingdom of Italy
Died	9 December 2018(2018-12-09) (aged 87) San Diego, California, U.S.
Nationality	Italian American
Alma mater	University of Milan
Known for	Astrophysics
Awards	Elliott Cresson Medal (1980) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1981) Nobel Prize in Physics (2002)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University Chandra X-ray Observatory

Riccardo Giacconi (/dʒəˈkoʊni/ 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. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.